Welcome to Silk Logic’s Travel Daily Podcast for December nineteenth, twenty twenty-five, where we bring you the latest travel technology breakthroughs transforming how the world explores. Today, we’ve got a lineup that proves just how fast the industry is reinventing itself. Coming up: Bitcoin payments take off at an airport in Norway, a new global tourism headquarters driven by digital innovation lands in Madrid, and a corporate travel tech company in India is making a major move onto the stock market—reshaping how businesses book and manage trips. Let’s dive into the future of smarter, smoother journeys.

First up, a travel payment revolution in Scandinavia. Digital currencies aren’t just for techies anymore: this week, Travel Retail Norway, the company running duty-free stores at major Norwegian airports, started accepting Bitcoin for online Click & Collect purchases at Oslo Airport. The key innovation? They’re using the Lightning Network—a technology that makes Bitcoin payments ne