This Year’s Theme: “On the Move” Throughout history, people have left their homes for a variety of reasons and have found themselves in faraway places. This has led to encounters with foreign lands, their inhabitants, their customs, their flora and fauna. Cultural heritage collections are full of artifacts resulting from and bearing witness to those people “on the move”: archival records, travel reports, audiovisual documents, object collections, oral histories etc. These...
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Coinswapz Travel – a new kind of travel company based in the United Arab Emirates – is making headlines after it announced that travel hounds and general customers can utilize digital currencies to book their trips and take care of other vacation-related expenses. Coinswapz Will Accept Crypto Payments The move is pushing the goals of bitcoin and its digital counterparts closer to being achieved. What many people likely forget is that while bitcoin and many of its...
Read More »Cihan Tuna Arslan Discusses His Long History with Crypto
Cihan Tuna Arslan is a world traveler, educator, and engineer, and at the heart of all his journeys has been cryptocurrency. Cihan Tuna Arslan on the Power of Crypto In a recent discussion, Arslan talked about his love for the space and said: Cryptocurrency is not money as it is known, but encrypted digital assets that are not dependent on any central authority and have a limited supply. This makes it a world-changing invention in creating a free and reliable money...
Read More »Ariva World Is Developing a New Cryptocurrency Aimed at Travelers
Ariva World – a company that connects travelers with tourism service firms – is launching its very own digital currency. Ariva World Is Issuing a Cryptocurrency for Travelers The company has issued a statement claiming that the old ways of traveling and moving across the globe are no longer working, and executives are seeking a way to ensure customers get the most effective system out there when booking their trips. This new cryptocurrency will reward travelers and is...
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Port Aventura, a world resort, is currently developing software that will allow its customers to pay for rooms and other vacation-related expenses with digital currencies. Presently, the company boasts several theme parks in Europe along with six hotels that contain approximately 2,300 total rooms. Port Aventura Gives a Greenlight to BTC Payments The software is set to be released in early 2022 and will be installed in every hotel hosted by Port Aventura. From there, the...
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As of late, bitcoin and cryptocurrency are being used all the time to pay for travel expenses such as flights and hotel stays, but is paying for these items with crypto a good idea? Travel and Bitcoin: A Solid Match? For many, the idea of using bitcoin and its altcoin cousins to pay for goods and services is a dream come true and the realization of a strong financial vision. These currencies were initially designed to take over and push fiat, checks and credit cards to...
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One of the big things that many industry experts claim will bring bitcoin into mainstream territory is its usage as a valid payment method, and now, thanks to fly Exclusive, it looks like this day may be arriving rather soon. fly Exclusive Is Allowing Crypto Payments fly Exclusive is a company that specializes in private jet charter travel. As a luxury brand, it has announced that all customers looking to fly the friendly skies through its services may do so with the...
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Expedia and Travala.com Join Forces to Offer Frictionless Cryptocurrency Travel Booking Expedia Partner Solutions (EPS), one of the brands of Expedia Group, has launched a new partnership with Travala, the leading cryptocurrency-friendly accommodation booking platform with over 2 million hotels in 230 countries. Powered by EPS’s versatile API, Rapid, more than 700’000 Expedia Group hotels and accommodations are now available via...
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