BCD Brings MCP to TripSource as Corporate Travel Gets More AI-Ready

BCD Travel announced that it has added the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to TripSource, its corporate travel technology platform.

The company says the framework will help expand agentic AI across booking, trip management, travel program intelligence, and spend management.

For travelers, the goal is a simpler booking process. For travel managers, the value is stronger control over policy, data, and spending. Instead of only answering questions, AI tools could help find travel options, check them against company rules, and support faster decisions.

What MCP means

MCP is an open standard that helps AI systems connect with external tools, data sources, and workflows. Anthropic introduced it in 2024 as a way to build secure, two-way connections between AI tools and the information they need.

In corporate travel, this is important because booking is not just about price. A business trip may involve company policy, traveler preferences, approval rules, payment data, and reporting needs. MCP gives AI agents a more consistent way to access that context.

Booking could become faster and more guided

BCD said its MCP models already support air, hotel, and car shopping and booking, with rail expected to follow. The company wants travel content and policy to work together inside one interface, so travelers see options that are already relevant and compliant.

This could reduce unnecessary searching and lower the chance of out-of-policy bookings. It may also help travel teams spend less time correcting choices after the booking process has already started.

Travel managers could get quicker answers from data

BCD is also using MCP to support natural language access to enterprise travel data. This means a user or AI system could ask a question in plain language and receive an answer based on large company data sets, without needing a custom report or separate technical integration.

That could help travel managers understand spending patterns, policy exceptions, hotel costs, or traveler behavior more quickly.

This follows a broader move by major travel companies to make their inventory usable by AI agents. Just days before BCD’s announcement, Expedia Group’s plan was to launch a B2B Model Context Protocol server that would let partners connect AI agents to Expedia’s travel inventory.

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