I use ChatGPT daily to help me with everything from which restaurants to try when visiting a new city to which artists to see at a music festival, both based on things I've previously told ChatGPT I like. Although I've used ChatGPT to plan trips, I've been hesitant to give it access to my loyalty accounts and travel bookings.
However, Gondola AI — the company that provides data for many of our monthly hotel points valuations — recently launched an MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration that works with ChatGPT, Claude Desktop and more. In short, MCP is an open standard that allows AI applications to connect to external tools and data sources, such as Gondola.
I'd already given Gondola access to scan, parse and track travel-related messages in my email accounts, so I decided to try Gondola's MCP integration in ChatGPT to see whether it's a tool I should use going forward.
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on The Points Guy Articles.
