{"id":11249,"date":"2025-02-04T12:01:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T12:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=11249"},"modified":"2025-02-04T12:01:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T12:01:46","slug":"trivago-adds-travalas-hotel-inventory-gaining-crypto-payment-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=11249","title":{"rendered":"Trivago Adds Travala&#8217;s Hotel Inventory, Gaining Crypto Payment Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Travala, the travel website that accepts payments in cryptocurrency, has teamed up with trivago (TRVG), adding its inventory of 2.2 million properties to the hotel search platform.<\/p>\n<p>When trivago users select a Travala hotel they will be redirected to the website, where they will have the option of paying in bitcoin (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/price\/bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\">BTC<\/a>), ether (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/price\/ethereum\/\" target=\"_blank\">ETH<\/a>) and dozens of other cryptocurrencies, the company said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p>Travala has already secured similar tie-ups with travel search sites <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travala.com\/blog\/travala-integrates-with-skyscanner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skyscanner<\/a> in September last year and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travala.com\/blog\/kayak-partners-with-crypto-travel-booking-service-travala\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kayak<\/a> in November 2023. The agreement with trivago adds to the real-world uses for cryptocurrencies, with hotel bookings now available as well as payments for flights.<\/p>\n<p>The Singapore-based platform founded in 2017 also allows users to earn rewards in bitcoin or Travala&#8217;s native token AVA, which has dropped more than 50% this year after touching a three-year high of more than $3 on Dec. 13. <\/p>\n<p>Travala, which is backed by the world&#8217;s largest crypto exchange, Binance, is in talks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/01\/14\/travala-crypto-native-travel-website-said-to-receive-unsolicited-takeover-approach\" target=\"_blank\">with potential buyers after receiving a takeover approach late last year<\/a>, CoinDesk reported last month. <\/p>\n<p>Kayak-owner Booking.com (BKNG) was one previous suitor that decided to pass on a potential acquisition, two people with knowledge of the matter said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travala, the travel website that accepts payments in cryptocurrency, has teamed up with trivago (TRVG), adding its inventory of 2.2 million properties to the hotel search platform. When trivago users select a Travala hotel they will be redirected to the website, where they will have the option of paying in bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-11249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}