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API Evangelist Paper · Sector Report

The State of Canadian Travel APIs

What nine Canadian travel and aviation organizations actually publish, scored — the country that authored the travel industry's flagship standard, and the emptiest market in the quartet.

$500.00 Version 1.0 · July 2026
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About this paper

IATA is headquartered in Montreal. It authored New Distribution Capability — the standard the entire air industry has spent a decade implementing — and ONE Record for cargo. It runs the accreditation regime, the BSP settlement system, the ticketing resolutions and the PADIS code lists that every organization in this quartet depends on. It operates an Open API Hub.

Its own published surface scores 23.8, in the Emerging band, with no MCP server and no packaged agent skills. The OpenTravel Alliance — a volunteer non-profit in Florida with a fraction of the budget — scores 58.3.

That gap sets the tone for the market around it. Canadian travel averages 26.0 and nothing reaches the Developing band; six of nine organizations cluster between 18 and 29, uniformly under-published rather than unevenly published. There is no domestic exemplar to point at, no MCP server anywhere in the country, and no idempotency. An ecosystem cannot be more machine-readable than the body that defines its vocabulary.

What's inside

  1. Executive summary — the standards capital that does not publish
  2. The state of the sector — the standards capital that does not publish
  3. The resource taxonomy — five specifications, one publisher
  4. The composite Kin Score, and why it is the foundation
  5. Agent-readiness — no MCP server anywhere
  6. The blueprint
  7. Standards, switching cost, and the agentic turn
  8. Security, authentication, scopes and compliance
  9. Provider-by-provider intelligence
  10. The investable thesis
  11. Where this is going
  12. Provenance — what is theirs and what is mine

database Includes the AI data bundle

This report ships with a machine-readable data bundle — the evidence behind every number, packaged to drop straight into the AI tool of your choice. Converse with the research you bought, check any claim against the source data, and take it further than the PDF.

data_object providers.json / .csv / .yaml — every provider, layered raw → enriched → derived
table_rows scores.csv & rankings.csv — facet-by-facet scores, composite vs. agent-readiness rank
insights market-stats.json & capabilities.json — sector averages, band distribution, per-provider artifact inventory
forum AI-START-HERE + data dictionary, methodology & prompts — a paste-in primer so your AI reads it correctly

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What you get for $500.00

picture_as_pdf A print-ready, formatted PDF edition
description The editable Word (.docx) source
database The AI data bundle — every provider scored, as JSON/CSV/YAML
forum An AI conversation primer so you can query the research directly
checklist The anti-patterns & self-assessment checklist
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