Nice!
Soon I will be able to book my trips and travel using Expedia.ca with Bitcoins
This is awesome news thanks for sharing this
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It's more interesting to imagine the secondary effects here.
What do people do when they travel? Bring local currency. Tourism driven businesses may begin to realise they have an opportunity in accepting bitcoin from travellers who are already using it to pay for the trip. Touristic businesses are probably used to dealing with people using stolen credit cards or doing chargebacks more than alot of businesses, so they'll see bitcoin like a form of universal cash.
The more that tourist areas accept bitcoin, the more people will bring bitcoin to spend when travelling, and vice versa. Very nice positive feedback loop. Why change to dozens of different currencies for all the places you visit when you could keep one that's accepted almost everywhere? And when you get home with a little left over, it turns out they accept it back home too...
What do people do when they travel? Bring local currency. Tourism driven businesses may begin to realise they have an opportunity in accepting bitcoin from travellers who are already using it to pay for the trip. Touristic businesses are probably used to dealing with people using stolen credit cards or doing chargebacks more than alot of businesses, so they'll see bitcoin like a form of universal cash.
The more that tourist areas accept bitcoin, the more people will bring bitcoin to spend when travelling, and vice versa. Very nice positive feedback loop. Why change to dozens of different currencies for all the places you visit when you could keep one that's accepted almost everywhere? And when you get home with a little left over, it turns out they accept it back home too...
Wow really?! This is huge news... Expedia is one of the first places that a lot of people go to when trying to make travel arrangements.
That's pretty cool. I hope Priceline follows suit.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/06/11/expedia-wants-you-to-book-your-next-hotel-stay-with-bitcoin/
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