Bitcoin Flies Farther in the Travel Industry after BitPay's Latest Partnership
BitPay has announced a new partnership with European information technology provider Ypsilon.Net. The company provides a platform with booking engines and the payment processing framework for tens of thousands of websites, processing millions of transactions every month. A new partnership between payment processor BitPay and Ypsilon.Net, a leading IT solutions provider for the travel industry will soon see thousands of online agencies and travel booking platforms offer a bitcoin settlement option for customers. In a blog post , BitPay made the announcement of its partnership with payment....
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European travel IT company ypsilon.NET has announced that it is integrating BitPay payment gateway API to enable Bitcoin payments on its platform. “As a leading IT company in an industry that is particularly hard hit by credit card fraud, we are always looking for new solutions for payment processing,” the company’s Director of Sales and Marketing, Patrick Götz, said in a press release announcing the move. He also added that BitPay will be an ideal partner in providing ypsilon.NET a secure method of accepting Bitcoin payments on their platforms, as they use “excellent compliance standards”....
The airline easyJet has teamed up with the London-based Founders Factory as the incubator attempts to create 200 successful startups within the next five years, reports City A.M. The accelerator and incubator, Founders Factory, created by the developers of Lastminute.com, Brent Hoberman and Henry Lane Fox, has set itself a mammoth task: develop 200 startups over the next five years across six sectors. In order to do this, it needs the backing of companies that believe in its mission. One such company is Britain’s popular low-cost airline, easyJet, which has become the latest backer of....
The Australian-based online travel service Webjet provides customers with airline tickets, car rentals, and insurance packages. Recently the company announced a partnership with Microsoft that aims to provide a blockchain solution to improve the travel industry. Webjet & Microsoft Build Blockchain Proof-of-Concept. The travel company Webjet revealed....
We've talked with the Bitcoin enthusiast Amuda Goueli, CEO and co-founder of Destinia.com, one of the top 5 online travel agencies in Spain that is now accepting bitcoin as a payment method for flights, hotel bookings and train tickets, becoming the first agency in Spain and second in Europe accepting bitcoins. Less than 24 hours after accepting Bitcoin, Destinia sold the first hotel+flight package with this cryptocurrency and, since then, almost daily are receiving sales. They're now using BitPay to process payments. For Stephanie Wargo, BitPay's VP of Marketing, the attraction of Bitcoin....
Bitcoin penetration in the hospitality industry is set for another expansion as a U.S. luxury hotel chain adopts cryptocurrency as a payment option. The Kessler Collection, an American luxury hotel brand, has begun accepting Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrencies as a payment option.According to a press release issued on Tuesday, the hotel chain has partnered with crypto payment gateway service BitPay to begin accepting Bitcoin. Other cryptos adopted include Ether (ETH), Dogecoin (DOGE) as well as four stablecoins — USD Coin (USDC), Paxos Standard (PAX), Binance USD (BUSD), and Gemini dollar....