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Meridian Dispatch

com.meridiandispatch/travel-guides · v2.3.0

Measured by MCP Station

Description written by the publisher, not verified

Reported travel guides: countries, towns, sights, trails, events, ski resorts. Cited.

Connect

claude mcp add --transport http travel-guides https://www.meridiandispatch.com/api/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "travel-guides": {
      "url": "https://www.meridiandispatch.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools as reported by the server

• search_guides
  Search every Meridian Dispatch travel guide by keyword: long-form dispatches, multi-day itineraries, country and town guides, venues (sights, museums, beaches, parks), trails and scenic drives, events and ski resorts. Use it first when you do not know the exact page. Once you know the place, read it
• get_destination
  Read the Meridian Dispatch guide to one country or one town, for planning a stay there. Returns: why go, how long to stay, the best months, getting there and around, practical FAQ answers, a structured fact sheet where one exists (nights, months, travel times in minutes, areas to stay, ranked top th
• get_place
  Read the Meridian Dispatch field record for one place: a sight, museum, beach or park, a trail or scenic drive, an event, or a ski resort. Returns the best time to go, how long it takes, effort, season, access, how to get there and what goes wrong, plus the best months, practical answers, a photo, t
• get_dispatch
  Read one Meridian Dispatch long-form dispatch or multi-day itinerary. A dispatch is a reported piece on one place: returns its headline, standfirst, opening excerpt, themes, publish date, photo and links to its town and country guides (the full text stays on the page). An itinerary is a country rout
• list_events
  List the festivals and events worth planning a trip around, from the Meridian Dispatch events guide. Returns each event's name, kind, where it is, the current edition's dates (a label plus ISO start and end), the best day to go, when to book, the next edition where announced, a citable URL and a cit
• list_best_places
  List Meridian Dispatch's ranked World's Best places: the 20 best in the world or the 10 best in one country, overall or within one category. Use it for "top things to do in X" or "best beaches in X". For one town's highlights use get_destination; for places near a point use list_nearby; for any othe
• get_best_time
  Get the best time to visit from the Meridian Dispatch guides, in one of two modes. Give destination (a country, town, trail or ski resort) for its best months, good and avoid months, closures and crowds where known, the guide's own best-time line, and the events held there. Or give month for "where
• list_nearby
  List the places Meridian Dispatch covers near a place or a coordinate, nearest first, for day trips from a base or what else to see near a sight. From a town with a researched guide, it leads with day_trips: the guide's own picks, with travel mode and how long. Without type it answers a day-trip que
• create_itinerary_link
  Generate an itinerary import link: turn a day-by-day travel itinerary into a shareable "Add Itinerary to Meridian Dispatch" link. Use it when the traveller has a day-by-day plan and wants it in the Meridian Dispatch app, or asks for a link to their trip. It is the only tool that creates anything for
• suggest_edit
  Send the Meridian Dispatch desk a correction to one of its pages. Use it when the traveller tells you something on a meridiandispatch.com page is wrong or out of date (a place has closed, moved, been renamed, changed its hours or now needs booking). Pass a source_url when the traveller gives one or
• confirm_fact
  Tell the Meridian Dispatch desk that a fact on one of its pages still holds, with the current, independent source that shows it (the place's official website, an operator or government page). Use it when the traveller confirms a fact on a page (they were just there, or asked you to check it and the
• suggest_place
  Suggest a town, sight, walk, museum, event, ski resort, food area or hotel that Meridian Dispatch has no page for, so the desk can research and add it to this free, shared travel reference. Use it when the traveller asks about, or tells you about, somewhere the guides do not cover (search_guides or

Tool changes

• 2026-10-22: search_guides, get_destination, get_place, get_dispatch, list_events, list_best_places, get_best_time, list_nearby, create_itinerary_link, suggest_edit, confirm_fact, suggest_place
• 2026-10-20: search_guides, get_destination, get_place, get_dispatch, list_events, list_best_places, get_best_time, list_nearby, create_itinerary_link, suggest_edit, confirm_fact, suggest_place
• 2026-10-18: search_guides, get_destination, get_place, get_dispatch, list_events, list_best_places, get_best_time, list_nearby, create_itinerary_link, suggest_edit, list_pages_to_verify, confirm_fact
• 2026-10-16: search_guides, get_destination, get_place, get_dispatch, list_events, list_best_places, get_best_time, list_nearby, create_itinerary_link

Website · JSON · Text for agents · Registry updated 2026-10-17