Hotel Booking Site GoCityHotels.com Will Soon Accept Bitcoin
If there's something the bitcoin community is great at, it's telling businesses that they should accept bitcoin. In this thread on social sharing website Reddit.com, the members of the community recently discussed convincing hotel booking agency GoCityHotels.com to accept bitcoin in exchange for hotel room reservations. Turns out it worked. The website responded to the community on Friday in this thread, noting boldly that they give in, and have decided to accept bitcoin due to overwhelming demand. In all, over two hundred bitcoin community members reached out to the company, flooding....
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In a strategy to encourage more customers to book hotels through their site, Hotelgo24.com is offering free bitcoins for room bookings. The company is giving a bitcoin cash back up to 5% for every reservation, which could be an enticing idea this summertime. "The service provides an extended base of accommodation, including 130 000 hotels, located in 20 426 cities from 198 countries. Customers will definitely enjoy simple and user-friendly interface attractive prices for accommodation and Bitcoin cash back up to 5%," the company indicated in its press release. Free Bitcoins Offered. At....
BTCTrip wants to bring 150,000 hotels to the Bitcoin economy. BTCTrip is one of those special companies in the Bitcoin space that knows how to evangelize for the cryptocurrency. While they already allow users to book flights around the world with Bitcoin, they are now preparing an expansion into the hotel market. In addition to allowing users to book hotels with their online reservation system, they're also rolling out some new features that should speed up the booking process and bring more hotels into the Bitcoin economy. Hotel Chains Now Accept Bitcoin. The first thing BTCTrip wants to....