Blockchain and the Hotel Booking Industry

Have blockchain, will travel

This post was written during the blockchain and crypto boom of 2017–2019 and remains online as part of an ongoing reflection on technological narratives, digital systems and their promises.

An introduction to this project and more context can be found on the start page: How We Wrote the Freedom Machine.


The whole travel sector is a prime example for a fragmented industry, if there ever was one. And those, usually feeding the mouths of a large number of middlemen, are just waiting for more efficient blockchain solutions to happen.

At howtotoken.com, I have been looking at a subfield of the travel industry: Hotel booking. Will online travel agencies (OTAs) and global distribution systems (GDSs) be replaced by blockchains soon? Find out in my recent article: The Blockchain transforms hotel booking into a walk-in experience.

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