What Travala is?

Blockchain transforms the hospitality business

Anass Haijeb
5 min readJul 20, 2020

Founded in 2017, Travala.com has grown from a small start-up to the world’s leading blockchain-based travel booking platform trusted by thousands of customers worldwide as their preferred online travel agency.

Travala is a platform for hotel and accommodation booking, covering more than 500,000 properties across the globe. What is supposed to set it apart from global competitors such as Booking.com it’s its push towards becoming a “next-generation online travel agency” focusing on cryptocurrency technology and the community built around it.

With that in mind, the Travala team started implementing blockchain technology to help the travel industry cut its costs, make travel packages less expensive, create a secure payment platform and provide seamless management of loyalty rewards programs.

At the heart of this system is Travala token (AVA) which helps the platform offer tokenized incentives to its customers and any other user that can help the platform grow.

This is usually done by providing reviews of accommodation properties and services and creating related content, as well as by bringing other customers to the platform. AVA tokens are available for the savings programs as well, with the rewards offered by the platform being in…

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Anass Haijeb

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