My experience connecting Gondola to ChatGPT for personalized travel planning

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.What can the Gondola MCP do?Gondola offers MCP tools for travelers, developers and travel advisers. In this article, I'll focus on the Gondola MCP tools designed for and available to travelers.The most compelling part of the Gondola MCP is that, depending on what you've shared or connected, it can know your travel pr...