Who it is for
Travellers filling days at a destination who want bookable activities rather than general sightseeing advice.
Viator
Search tours and attractions from Viator's catalogue
Overview
What Viator does
Viator, part of TripAdvisor, opens its catalogue of tours, attractions, and organised experiences to conversational search. A broad opening question such as what there is to do in a given city can be narrowed step by step.
The filters named are destination, dates, price range, and category. Results lead with practical information so that two options can be weighed without opening a separate page for each.
The example prompts move from a general question about the Vatican tomorrow to a request for more detail on one guided tour of the Colosseum, which is the pattern the app is built around: broad first, then specific.
What stands out
It is built for progressive narrowing, moving from a city-level question to a single named tour without leaving the conversation.
Availability
Where Viator is listed
Viator ships this on both marketplaces: Viator is listed in the Claude connectors directory and in the ChatGPT apps directory, under the same publisher domain.
Only 392 of the 3,150 products in this directory are listed in both marketplaces. One MCP server can serve both surfaces; what differs is each platform's listing and review process.
ChatGPT listing
In the ChatGPT apps directory
- Developer
- TripAdvisor Inc.
- Filed under
- Travel
- Listed since
- June 2026
- Authentication
- Authenticates when installed
- Website
- viator.com
- Policies published
- Privacy policy · Terms of service
- Official listing
- Open in ChatGPT
- Snapshot
- August 2026
Example prompts from the listing
- What can I do in the Vatican tomorrow?
- Show me more details on the Colosseum guided tour
Claude listing
In the Claude connectors directory
Viator publishes 2 tools to Claude, a deliberately narrow surface; only 5.3% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors expose fewer.
The median Claude-listed connector filed under Productivity publishes 12, so this one sits 10 tools below its bucket's median, 408th of 462.
It falls in the 1-3 tools band, which holds 16.4% of the Claude directory.
Measured against the live endpoint
A direct call to the endpoint returned 2 tools, matching the 2 the listing publishes. Probed 2026-08-07.
Tools the server actually returns
get_experience_detailssearch_experiences
Viator publishes a remote MCP endpoint. Claude connects to it over HTTP; there is nothing to install locally.
Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there.
- Publisher
- Viator
- Verification
- Verified partner (37.8% of the Claude directory)
- Filed under
- Productivity
- Endpoint
-
https://exp-app-mcp.prod.ep.viator.com/mcp - Documentation
- Publisher setup docs
- Published tools
- 2 · 1-3 tools band
- Depth rank in Productivity
- 408 of 462
- Snapshot
- August 2026
Viator carries partner verification in the Claude directory, which 474 of 1,253 listings do (37.8%). That is a review step past self-publishing, not an Anthropic-built server.
In the publisher's words
How Viator describes it
Discover and book unforgettable things to do with the Viator app. Search Viator's catalog of tours, attractions, and experiences using natural language. Just tell us where you're going and what you're interested in, and we will help you explore relevant options quickly and clearly. You can narrow results by destination, dates, price range, and categories, making it easy to move from a broad idea ("things to do in Paris") to options that fit your plans and budget. Each result focuses on practical details, so you can compare experiences without jumping between pages or tabs.
Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it.
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This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from Viator's public marketplace listings as they stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with Viator, and inclusion here is not an endorsement.
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