Expedia Accepts Bitcoin for Hotel Bookings

Expedia announced today that it will accept bitcoin payments for hotel bookings. Seems like a lot of big name companies are becoming bitcoin-friendly recently. Dish Network began accepting bitcoin about two weeks ago. Apple reversed its ban on bitcoin apps; and now, one of the biggest online travel sites - Expedia, has announced that it will begin accepting bitcoin for hotel bookings. Why is Expedia Accepting Bitcoin? According to Expedia's vice president - Michael Gulmann, "This is one of those ideas that seemed to have sprung from three different places all at once," and "if we're....

Hot off the presses! Goliath online travel agency/booking website Expedia announced Wednesday that they are going to become the first major website in the travel industry to accept bitcoin for hotel bookings. "This is one of those ideas that seemed to have sprung from three different places all at once," said Michael Gulmann, vice president of global product at Expedia. Company engineers and business developers were beginning to consider acceptance of the digital currency, as were customers requesting the website implement support for bitcoin payments. For now, Expedia will be running a....

This article has been updated with comment from an Expedia spokesperson. Travel bookings giant Expedia will start accepting bitcoin for hotel reservations, becoming the first major travel company to accept payments in cryptocurrency. "Bitcoin is a great example of how Expedia is investing early in an array of payment options to give our customers and partners more choice in the ways they interact with us," the company said in a press release announcing the move. Expedia said bitcoin will be integrated into the payment options for customers at check-out, sitting alongside payment methods....

Joining CheapAir and Expedia in offering hotel bookings for Bitcoin, Travgenius differs in one significant way: their bookings are for businesses only. Travgenius uses the B2B (business-to-business) moniker to advertise below-average prices for hotel packages that are booked in bulk. A Travgenius employee attempted to court the Bitcoin subreddit by announcing that their iOS app — which takes BTC for nearly 600,000 hotel options — has been released and is up for improvement suggestions. He also reported that an Android app should be shipped within a month. “Because of our great prices, we....

Major online travel agency Expedia made a splash in the crypto-currency community recently when they announced they would be accepting bitcoin, and so far things are seemingly going well. That's according to a company executive, who recently spoke to CoinDesk. The company's own Michael Gulmann, who services as Vice President of Global Product at the company, had the following to say: We did some estimates based on the size of Overstock and the size of Expedia, and came up with our own estimates of what we could expect, and we're meeting and exceeding those. Gulmann declined to specify just....