Booking service for luxury hotel chain Soneva, located in Thailand and the Maldives, said that guests of the resorts will now be able to pay for services with cryptocurrency.
Soneva is developing a crypto payment acceptance program in collaboration with crypto solution provider TripleA and payment platform provider Pomelo Pay. So, payments in BTC and ETH became available for guests of the resort in the Soneva Fushi, Soneva Jani and Soneva in Aqua complexes in the Maldives, as well as Soneva Kiri in Thailand.
“We have always strived to be pioneers in the hospitality industry. The adoption of cryptocurrency as a payment method is another example of how our international guests can easily make payments from anywhere in the world,” said Bruce Bromley, CFO and Deputy CEO of Soneva.
The Soneva initiative will allow resort guests to make crypto-currency payments without the risk of price volatility, with instant confirmation, fixed exchange rates and real-time conversions, but without the possibility of chargebacks.
In March, Stella Stays became the first hotel operator in the Middle East to accept payments in cryptocurrencies from guests. A year earlier, Pavilions Hotels&Resorts, a chain of elite hotels , announced the availability of payment for services in cryptocurrency.
