The 1Stay Hotels connector is live in the Anthropic connector directory, enabling Claude users to search live availability and book direct with the hotel.
CHARLOTTE, NC, UNITED STATES, September 22, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Stayker today announced that 1Stay Hotels, its AI-native hotel booking connector, is live in the Anthropic connector directory, making real hotel reservations available to Claude users in plain conversation.
Travelers connect the 1Stay Hotels connector once, then ask in their own words — a city, dates, what matters to them. 1Stay Hotels searches live availability and completes the reservation, securely and direct with the hotel, with confirmation delivered.
“The industry keeps saying booking is the part AI can’t do. I heard it again on a podcast earlier this month. We’d already solved it — securely, direct with the hotel and a real confirmation number. Today it’s live in Claude,” said Amy Barker, founder and CEO of Stayker.
“Nobody’s handing a credit card to an AI agent yet — and they shouldn’t have to,” Barker added. “AI is great at the searching: hundreds of hotels narrowed to the right one in seconds. We built 1Stay so the agent does that work and the traveler stays in the loop where it matters — approving the room and the payment through a secure checkout outside the chat.”
The travel industry has spent the year debating who owns the traveler when an AI assistant makes the booking — a question being argued this week at industry conferences by the largest online travel companies and hotel groups. 1Stay Hotels answers it differently: the reservation goes direct to the hotel, and so does the payment — the closest thing to a direct booking available in AI today.
For hotels, there is nothing to do: no signup, no integration, nothing to install. Properties are bookable through 1Stay today, with reservations arriving through the channels properties already work with — no new process, no new system.
The launch comes as AI assistants become the front door to travel planning — and as the industry debates whether AI can complete a booking at all. The connector is available at claude.ai/directory/1stay.
About Stayker
Stayker develops booking technology that brings hotels directly to their customers — live inventory, group solutions, and now AI. For over 20 years its founders have powered reservations for everything from major sporting events to wedding chapels; today, 1Stay — live at 1stay.ai and inside Claude — makes hotels bookable by AI assistants. The transaction is the first layer: next comes giving hotels control over how they show up when AI recommends them.
Stayker, founded in 2019, is IATA-accredited and based in Charlotte, N.C.
Anthropic and Claude are trademarks of Anthropic PBC. 1Stay Hotels is an independent connector listed in the Anthropic connector directory and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.
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