April 23, 2024

700 thousand hotels will start accepting bitcoin for payment

Hotel booking service Travala announced the start of cooperation with tour operator Expedia. Besides the firstcryptocurrencies users will be able to pay 30 altcoins.

700,000 hotels from the Expedia tour operator catalogwill start accepting bitcoin for payment. This was made possible thanks to the company’s partnership with the Travala hotel reservation service. In addition to the first cryptocurrency, users will be able to pay 30 altcoins.

The number of hotels that work with the serviceTravala exceeded 2.7 million. Due to the consequences of COVID-19, the company's revenue in June fell by 170% to $ 184 thousand. At the same time, 13% of all reservation transactions were made with the internal token of the AVA project.

May 2020 there was a merger between TravelByBit and Travala. It is assumed that following the results of full integration, one of the largest Travel agencies in the world will appear, and its users will have access to almost 3 million hotels and 600 airlines.

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