Claude MCP hotels — plug a 1.7M-hotel inventory into Claude Desktop

What MCP is

Model Context Protocol is Anthropic's open standard for letting LLMs talk to tools and data sources. An MCP server exposes a set of tools; the LLM picks which to call.

Our MCP server

Endpoint: https://swarm.impt.io/api/mcp/http. Auth: X-Partner-Key header.

Tools exposed:

• search_hotels — city, dates, guests → list of hotels with live pricing
• create_intent — hotel + dates → booking deeplink with your key embedded
• quote — specific hotel + dates → firm quote, holds for 5 mins
• deeplink — generic search deeplink for a city / date range

Install in Claude Desktop

// claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "impt-hotels": {
      "url": "https://swarm.impt.io/api/mcp/http",
      "headers": { "X-Partner-Key": "<your_key>" }
    }
  }
}

// 4 tools: search_hotels, create_intent, quote, deeplink

Why this matters

Claude users are increasingly asking AI to plan trips. "Find me a hotel in Lisbon for next weekend, under €200, near the Tagus river." Without MCP, Claude can only describe the answer. With MCP, Claude can return a real quote and a deeplink that books — with your partner key on the booking.

Cookie + attribution in MCP context

Standard cookies don't apply in a chat interface. We instead persist the partner key on the deeplink itself; the booking record carries it forward for 90 days.