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When it comes to planning holidays somewhere abroad, many of us turn to services like Booking.com or AirBnB, which allows you to book accommodation of any kind, from luxury hotels to separate rooms in apartments or beds in youth hostels, in any country in the world. These services allow online payments that are familiar to most people, since bank cards, which allow instant conversion into any fiat currency available in the world, have entered our lives.
But what about those who try to keep up with the times and prefer to enjoy the holidays instead of losing significant sums on the conversion while booking the accommodation? The Travala.com travel website, which is commonly referred to as the AirBnB on the blockchain, is right here to offer this option.
As reported on the official Travala.com website on December 14th, the Ripple native XRP was also successfully added to the platform:
"You can now book over 550,000 hotels in 210 countries using @ripple $ XRP. Travel over 82,000 destinations worldwide."
This announcement was followed by a similar announcement later on the same day that the Travala.com team mentioned the future intention to include DASH as another cryptocurrency payment method to be implemented on the website, so as to take the number total crypto-currencies supported by the ten-platform.
The travel site currently accepts Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), Ethereum (ETH), EOS (EOS), Coin Binance (BNB), Stellar Lumens (XLM), True USD (TUSD), XRP (XRP), and own native currency AVA. Despite the growing success of the platform, the AVA token was unable to escape the generalized salary of 2018. It currently trades at $ 0.13, which is 63% lower than its initial price of $ 0.35 in the US dollar. April of this year.
As for the last few months, which proved to be difficult times for most cryptographic resources, we can not fail to mention that Ripple's XRP was managed not only to survive, but also to succeed, establishing new important partnerships and listings. In early December, the Internet payment system Skrill announced the addition of XRP to its platform. And a few days later, it was reported that Omni, a rental service company, began an active collaboration with Ripple for the use of XRP to provide customers with better liquidity.
According to Asheesh Birla, Ripple's senior vice president of product management, one of the reasons why XRP continues to grow in such difficult times is the pragmatism of the Ripple team that the anti-fiat approach does not work at this time:
"We decided to collaborate with financial institutions and I think it paid off, but we also need to think about all the financial requirements and regulations, and in 2013 it was the maximum Bitcoin of" we do not need anything at all what. We no longer need government, banks or companies, only Bitcoin. "This approach does not work: Working with financial institutions and regulators is a longer way, but it's the right one".
For more information on the XRP currency, the Ripple company and their innovative solutions, check out our fantastic guide.
