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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.

Despegar.com publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Travel, Hotels, and Flights.

The Despegar.com catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Despegar.com’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, authentication, sandbox, and 18 more developer resources.

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34.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 43/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
AccessSelf serve
5 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyConsumerTravelHotelsFlightsActivitiesBookingLatin AmericaB2BMCPWebhook

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 34.4/100 · thin
Contract Quality 11.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 8.9 / 20
Access Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Contract Governance 2.2 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 43/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 5

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 that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Despegar.com MCP Server

Despegar publishes official hosted MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers for its B2B travel API, exposing flight and hotel search/cart tools over JSON-RPC HTTP. Authentication is...

MCP SERVER

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Despegarcom Communication Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Despegarcom Authentication

apiKey/oauth2/mutualTLS · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Despegarcom Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Despegarcom Vulnerability Disclosure

Bugcrowd · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 Sandbox
Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 6

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 MCPServer
MCPServer
 WellKnown
WellKnown
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions
Conventions
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Webhooks
Webhooks
 Conformance
Conformance

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
 Packages
Packages

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication
Authentication
 SecurityTxt
SecurityTxt
 VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 Security
Security
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: despegarcom
name: Despegar.com
description: '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.'
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://files.readme.io/45785f4-brandmark-blue.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/despegarcom/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- insight-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Travel
- Hotels
- Flights
- Activities
- Booking
- Latin America
- B2B
- MCP
- Webhook
tags_raw:
- Company
- Consumer
- Travel
- Hotels
- Flights
- Activities
- Booking
- Latin America
- B2B
- MCP
- Webhooks
apis:
- name: Despegar B2B Hotels API
  description: Hotel search, live availability, prebook, payment, booking and static content.
  humanURL: https://api-docs.despegar.com/docs/hotels
  baseURL: https://api.despegar.com/v3
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api-docs.despegar.com/reference/searchavailability-1
- name: Despegar B2B Flights API
  description: Flight search, prebook, payment, ticket issuing and after-sales.
  humanURL: https://api-docs.despegar.com/docs/flight
  baseURL: https://api.despegar.com/v3
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api-docs.despegar.com/reference/searchflightsavailability-1
- name: Despegar B2B Activities API
  description: Search and purchase of tours and activities (tickets).
  humanURL: https://api-docs.despegar.com/docs/activities
  baseURL: https://api.despegar.com/v3
- name: Despegar After-Sales API
  description: Post-sale cancellation, rescheduling and special-request flows.
  humanURL: https://api-docs.despegar.com/docs/aftersales
  baseURL: https://api.despegar.com/v3
- name: Despegar Common Assets API
  description: Geographic data and static content (cities, countries, airports, hotel inventory, amenities).
  humanURL: https://api-docs.despegar.com/docs/geo
  baseURL: https://api.despegar.com/v3
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: http://www.despegar.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://dev.despegar.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api-docs.despegar.com/docs/ecosystem
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api-docs.despegar.com/reference/createprebook-1
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://api-docs.despegar.com/docs/ecosystem
- type: Support
  url: https://api-docs.despegar.com/docs/support
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/despegar
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/despegarcom-llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/despegarcom-mcp.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/despegarcom-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/despegarcom-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/despegarcom-lifecycle.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/despegarcom-sandbox.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/despegarcom-communication-webhooks.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/despegarcom-conformance.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/despegarcom-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/despegarcom-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/despegarcom-security.txt
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/despegarcom-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/despegarcom-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/despegarcom-domain-security.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/despegarcom-hotel-search-and-book.md
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/despegarcom-flight-search-and-book.md
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/despegarcom-cancel-reservation.md
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence