Air Arabia
Flights
The first airline in the Middle East to accept a stablecoin — AE Coin, the UAE's central-bank-licensed dirham token.
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Trip.com
Major OTA reported to have launched a regional USDT and USDC pilot for prepaid bookings — not yet in its own payment documentation.
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At a glance
- Accepts stablecoins?
- Yes (unverified)
- Stablecoins
- Not published by the merchant
- Networks
- Not published — confirm the chain at checkout
- How you pay
- Not published — confirm at checkout
- Payment provider
- Not published
- Verified
- Not independently verified
- Limitations
- Reported as a regional pilot shown by IP address; not offered in mainland China or Hong Kong. · 2 more
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Payment readiness
Every line from the record; gaps are stated, not filled.- Confirmed coin and network pairings
- No stablecoin named by the merchant. Crypto acceptance is confirmed; which coins, if any, is unknown.
- Evidence
- Corroboration only (third-party report) — not independently checked
- Payment route
- Via an intermediary You pay this business; the goods or service come from another brand that has not itself been documented as accepting stablecoins.
- Countries
- Country eligibility not published
- Product restrictions
- 3 documented
- Refunds
- Refund terms for stablecoin payments not published
- Identity checks
- Not published
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Stablecoins accepted
- USDC no evidence of acceptance
- USDT no evidence of acceptance
- PYUSD no evidence of acceptance
- USDS no evidence of acceptance
- DAI no evidence of acceptance
- RLUSD no evidence of acceptance
- EURC no evidence of acceptance
- AEC no evidence of acceptance
A dash means we found no evidence of support, not that support is impossible. Coin availability at checkout can differ by country and product.
Payment method
- Payment provider
- Not confirmed
- Direct wallet transfer
- No
- Identity verification
- Not confirmed
Availability
- Online
- Yes
- Physical locations
- No
- Regions served
- Not confirmed
Payment notes
We are listing Trip.com because people search for it, and the honest answer is more useful than the headlines. Numerous outlets reported in October 2025 that Trip.com had enabled USDT and USDC for prepaid hotel and flight bookings through Triple-A, across Ethereum, Tron, Polygon, Solana, Arbitrum and TON, with the option surfaced by IP address and absent in mainland China and Hong Kong. We could not corroborate any of that against Trip.com's own material. Its published payment FAQ lists cards, UnionPay, WeChat Pay, Naver Pay and Apple Pay, and no cryptocurrency of any kind. So: do not travel to this checkout expecting a stablecoin option, and do not assume the reporting is wrong either — a quiet regional pilot would look exactly like this. We claim no coins and no networks until Trip.com documents them.
Trip.com is one of the largest travel booking platforms in the world — the international arm of the group that owns Ctrip, Skyscanner and Trip.com itself. If it accepts stablecoins at scale, that is genuinely significant for anyone holding USDC or USDT and wanting to spend it on something large.
This page exists to tell you what we could and could not establish, because the gap between the two is unusually wide.
What was reported
In October 2025 a wave of coverage said Trip.com had switched on stablecoin payments. The consistent details across outlets were:
- USDT and USDC accepted, for prepaid hotel and flight bookings
- Processed by Triple-A, a Singapore-licensed payment institution
- Wallets supported across Ethereum, Tron, Polygon, Solana, Arbitrum One and TON
- Availability determined by IP address, absent in mainland China and reportedly in Hong Kong
- Hotel bookings completable with just a name and email
The reporting was broad and internally consistent, which is some evidence in itself. Several outlets also cited savings figures for users in Vietnam.
What we could not confirm
Any of it, from Trip.com.
Trip.com’s published payment FAQ lists Visa, Mastercard, JCB, Amex, UnionPay, WeChat Pay, Naver Pay, Apple Pay and its own stored-value products. No cryptocurrency. No stablecoin. No mention of Triple-A.
We could not locate a first-party announcement from Trip.com, and we could not locate one from Triple-A either — the coverage traces back to reporting rather than to a press release from either party.
Why the listing says nothing rather than something
Our rule is that an acceptance claim needs the merchant, its processor, or a checkout test behind it. A cluster of news articles, however consistent, is none of those. The verification methodology explains why we hold that line: a directory that promotes reported acceptance to confirmed acceptance is a directory that will eventually send someone to a checkout that does not exist.
So the coin and network fields on this record are empty. Not because we think the reporting is wrong — a limited regional pilot surfaced by IP address is precisely the kind of thing that would never reach a global FAQ page — but because we have not seen it ourselves and cannot tell you it will be there.
If you want to try
Book a prepaid rate rather than pay-at-property, and check the payment step from the country you are actually in. If a stablecoin option appears, we would genuinely like to know: tell us, ideally with a screenshot, and we will re-verify and update this record with the detail.
In the meantime, Travala is the travel platform in this directory with documented, first-party stablecoin acceptance, and Alternative Airlines covers flights specifically.
Verification
Unverified Reviewed September 2026
Compiled from public documentation and pending an independent editorial check. Treat the details below as a lead, not a guarantee.
This record deliberately claims no stablecoins. Multiple independent outlets reported in October 2025 that Trip.com had launched stablecoin payments supporting USDT and USDC via the Singapore-licensed processor Triple-A, spanning Ethereum, Tron, Polygon, Solana, Arbitrum One and TON, restricted by region and limited to prepaid bookings. We could not find that reflected on any Trip.com domain: the company's published payment FAQ enumerates card and regional wallet options only, with no cryptocurrency. Neither Trip.com nor Triple-A appears to have published a first-party announcement we can cite. Under our sourcing rules an independent report cannot carry an acceptance claim on its own, so the status is "unverified" (re-read 2026-09-22: the payment FAQ still lists no cryptocurrency), the coin and network fields are empty, and this note carries the detail instead.
Methods used
- third party report
Sources
- Trip.com — payment methods FAQ The merchant's own published payment list, which contains no cryptocurrency or stablecoin option. Cited as evidence of what Trip.com does and does not document.
- Trip.com tests stablecoin payments overseas, offering USDT and USDC for prepaid bookings The independent report of a regional pilot: USDT and USDC, prepaid bookings, IP-based availability, excluded in mainland China and Hong Kong.
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Recent changes
Dated history for this record. We log only changes we can evidence, so an entry here reflects something that actually moved — not routine re-checking. The full feed across every merchant is on What’s Changed .
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Added to directory
Added as an explicitly unconfirmed record so that readers searching for Trip.com stablecoin payments find the actual evidentiary position rather than the headlines.
Limitations
- Reported as a regional pilot shown by IP address; not offered in mainland China or Hong Kong.
- Reported to cover prepaid bookings only.
- Trip.com's own published payment FAQ does not list any cryptocurrency or stablecoin.
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