BCD has developed a Model Context Protocol framework across its Tripsource platform, which the travel management company said will expand agentic AI capabilities across the company.
Among the MCP models that BCD has launched include those able to bring shopping capabilities for air, hotel and car into a single interface that can bring together content and policy, according to BCD.
With that, applications and agents can pull options that both meet traveller preferences and are policy-compliant without having to shop through various options.
In addition, BCD said it has launched an MCP interface that can harvest data from enterprise data lakes and make it accessible by natural language processing, without having to integrate across multiple APIs and data sources.
The TMC said its MCPs also enable AI agents internally to work together in reasoning and sharing context across shopping, booking, data and policy.
MCP, a standard from which AI models can connect to external data sources and software, "allows AI to plug into different systems, even as those systems continue to evolve," BCD EVP of product planning and development Yannis Karmis said in a statement.
"We are committed to evolving how the industry consumes travel services, data and intelligence, always with our customers' outcomes at the centre.”