Despegar.com
Despegar.com (NYSE: DESP) is the leading online travel company in Latin America, operating the consumer brands Despegar and Decolar alongside the B2B HotelDo / BestDay distribution network. Its B2B travel API lets partners integrate hotels, flights and activities into their own systems, covering the full search, prebook, payment, booking and after-sales (cancellation, rescheduling, special requests) flows, plus geographic and static-content services, push-based event webhooks, a Rewards loyalty API, and an mTLS Security API for B2B transactions. Despegar also publishes official hosted MCP servers for agent-based flight and hotel search, and an llms.txt index of its developer documentation.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Despegar.com the way a machine reads it — 10 machine-readable artifacts across 5 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Despegar.com scores 33.1/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Despegar.com
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Despegar.com. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 5
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Despegar B2B Hotels API
Hotel search, live availability, prebook, payment, booking and static content.
Despegar B2B Flights API
Flight search, prebook, payment, ticket issuing and after-sales.
Despegar B2B Activities API
Search and purchase of tours and activities (tickets).
Despegar After-Sales API
Post-sale cancellation, rescheduling and special-request flows.
Despegar Common Assets API
Geographic data and static content (cities, countries, airports, hotel inventory, amenities).
MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
despegarcom-mcp.yml
MCP SERVEREvent Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Despegar.com — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 6
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 4
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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