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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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33.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 39/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
5 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyConsumerTravelHotelsFlightsActivitiesBookingLatin AmericaB2BMCPWebhooks

Kin Score

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 33.1/100 · thin
Contract Quality 5.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 14.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
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 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3
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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.

despegarcom-mcp.yml

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: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- 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