Cheapair.com has been leading the way as far as providing consumers with the ability to book travel services with Bitcoin. I first highlighted the company back in November of last year when they announced airfare purchases for BTC.
Well it turns out they had such success with that rollout that they are going to offer hotel booking with Bitcoin at over 200,000 hotels in their worldwide network. As I have said before, if done properly, there is only upside to retailers accepting BTC. The adoption continues…
From USA Today:
It may soon become easier for travelers to book entire vacations using Bitcoin, the digital currency.
Online travel agency CheapAir.com has started accepting Bitcoins to make reservations at the more than 200,000 hotels in its worldwide network.
In November, the website began taking Bitcoins for flight purchases, and CEO Jeff Klee said the website gained new customers after that.
“We’ve been really pleasantly surprised by the response,” he says. “We’re making a lot more Bitcoin sales than we expected to make.”
Boom!
Full article here.
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