{"id":50232,"date":"2021-09-27T16:12:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T13:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=50232"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:57:30","slug":"portaventura-to-begin-accepting-bitcoin-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/portaventura-to-begin-accepting-bitcoin-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"PortAventura to begin accepting Bitcoin payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish PortAventura will be the first amusement park to integrate the option to pay with the first cryptocurrency. The changes will take effect with the new season in 2022.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">We became the first themed resort to accept payment with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> \ud83d\udcf2\ud83c\udfe8<\/p>\n<p>The next season guests staying at the hotels of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PortAventura?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PortAventura<\/a> World will be able to pay their stay with this cryptocurrency. <br \/>\u27a1\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DrWd9rskSx\">https:\/\/t.co\/DrWd9rskSx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4cufOjE9fC\">pic.twitter.com\/4cufOjE9fC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PortAventura World (@Portaventura_ES) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Portaventura_ES\/status\/1440994408627941376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the press release, in the first stage payment in Bitcoin will be available to guests of six hotels with 2,300 rooms.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative was developed as part of the company&#8217;s strategic project to implement innovations.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIn PortAventura World we are deeply immersed in the process of digitalisation to improve the experience of our guests and promote new forms of entertainment,\u201d said Managing Director David Garcia Blancas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In July 2021, the luxury boutique hotel network Pavilions Hotels &#038; Resorts <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/pavilions-premium-hotel-chain-adds-cryptocurrency-payment-option\">added the ability to pay for room bookings in Bitcoin<\/a>, Ethereum and 40 other cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the Latvian airline airBaltic <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/airbaltic-adds-ability-to-pay-for-tickets-with-ethereum-and-dogecoin\">integrated ticket purchases in Ethereum<\/a>, Dogecoin, Bitcoin Cash, USD Coin, Binance Dollar, Gemini Dollar and Paxos.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish PortAventura will become the first amusement park to enable payment in the first cryptocurrency. The changes will take effect with the new season in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1198,2211],"class_list":["post-50232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-crypto-payments","tag-hotels"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50234,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50232\/revisions\/50234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}