By Nicholas Paillart, Chief Marketing Officer – Tratok. As the hospitality sector faces an existentialist crisis unprecedented in its history, one which has not only crashed occupancy, ADR and RevPAR levels to all-time lows, it is important to reach out to the hospitality industry to understand their views on the current situation, how they have responded to the pandemic and their thoughts on the market moving forward. Colliers International conducted a survey which the Research and Marketing Team at Tratok are pleased to analyze for you. Survey participants are from more than 25 cities in MENA. The majority of investments owned by respondents are in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt. 65% of participants own operational hotels. The balance have hotels under development. As a result, to the…

Halfway through the first quarter of the year, the team would like to summarize the 23 updates and milestones reached thus far. At almost four important updates per week, 2020 has started strongly. Thus far, 2020 has seen the following: Launch of the Application. Two new business licenses. Eight new strategic partnerships. Six updates to the travel aspect of the ecosystem. Three updates to the tokenomic aspect of the ecosystem. Two updates to the social aspect of the ecosystem. One update to the review aspect of the ecosystem. Announcement and selection of candidates for pilot testing the airline module to take place in March 2020. 60,000+ new real registrations (after the deletion of over 250,000 bot accounts). This, of course, is without considering our new promotion programs, entry into new…

Tratok has always been different. In an industry that is overcrowded with fraud, we have always ensured we champion technology and products and results over bogus promises and magic beans and exit scams to sunny islands. We are known for doing what others only promise to do. As such we wish to be clear with the public on a matter that we think is of vital importance. Recently, many have gotten excited over the fact that since January 2020, there have been over 212,000 new signups on Tratok.net. This is not correct and 84% (at the 95 % confidence interval) of these accounts are fake. Therefore they have been deleted and banned. This action was taken in line with our strong anti-fraud and transparency stance. We are anti-hype and deception…

With the finishing touches being implemented into the Tratok travel ecosystem, our team has come up with a fun away for the public to win some nice prizes. One hundred (100) prizes of ten thousand (10,000) Tratok are up for grabs. To participate is very simple. You just need to take the following steps: Retweet this post with a picture of yourself wearing the Tratok Cap Snapchat Lens. You can activate the lens by clicking the following link: Tratok Cap Sign up to Tratok.net (If not already done so). Update your profile on Tratok.net with the new picture. Like this tweet and reply with a link to your Tratok.net user wall and with your image attached. Alternatively, you can take part on Facebook: here These are the only steps required,…

With all the rumours coming out of the bot communities and from TOS violating airdrop hunters (who can't even get the name of the token right), Tratok felt it the duty of the project members to confess that we have committed many "crimes" over the previous year. We admit that we are evil and confess to the following crimes: The team acknowledges that it was poor form to catch all the cheaters and deal with them. We should have let them rob us blind and steal to their heart's content. How dare we spend significant amounts of capital and labour to ensure the future of the project, the well being of the ecosystem and protect Tratok's genuine supporters? The team acknowledges it was evil of us to fund Tratok entirely…

The first update of 2020 kicks off with the release of Tratok’s travel applications for IOS and Android. In conjunction with the release of last month’s third-generation ecosystem, this is aimed at making Tratok easier to use, multi-platform and accessible to those with no knowledge of blockchain technologies. Please keep an eye out for these in on Google Play and Apple’s App Store in the next 24-48 hours. While it is the weekend, after working through the holiday season to ensure delivery and functionality of the apps on time, the team is determined to let nothing stop us. With this milestone reached, efforts in the next quarter will be focused on expansion and marketing while the ecosystem continues to be enhanced with additional features added. As it currently stands, we…

Before Tratok deploys the next stage there will be a fundamental change in the way the ecosystem operates. This change is being done with simplicity, wide-scale adoption and security as the strongest considerations. It follows the analysis of 3212 surveys from members of the public who were unfamiliar with blockchain technologies. On the back of the insightful results and feedback, Tratok’s payment gateway is changing for simplicity of use with the general public in mind. The ideal time for this change is the present, as Tratok is about to expand massively and deploy new features into the ecosystem and start marketing itself to the general public. Implementation of this change at a later date would only serve to complicate matters and it is betterer adopted now before the next phase…

In the race to excellence, there is no finishing line! The core development team is working hard throughout the holiday season, continuing to deliver the quality products that the public associate with Tratok, the world's travel token. [wpdevart_countdown text_for_day="Days" text_for_hour="Hours" text_for_minut="Minutes" text_for_second="Seconds" countdown_end_type="time" hide_on_mobile="show" end_date="03-01-2020 23:59" start_time="1578055011" end_time="6,23,59" action_end_time="hide" content_position="center" top_ditance="10" bottom_distance="10" ][/wpdevart_countdown]

Tratok has always promised the community that it would never accept fraudulent or malicious behaviour. Such criminal behaviour not only wastes time and resources but also hurts the image of projects by the use of spambots. In the final purge before the team goes ahead with Vision 2020, our team worked in conjunction with IpQuality score and other NSA grade security tools to rid the community once and for all from these undesirable elements. At the 99% confidence interval, bans were issued for the following (a combination of at least three in 94% of all cases): Those found to be bot accounts. (Instant Ban) Those found to have multiple of their registered social media accounts suspended. Those found to have registered multiple accounts. (Instant Ban) Those who failed to respond…

2019 was a year of challenges and milestones for the team at Tratok as well as the industry. Importantly for the health of the industry, new regulations were drafted in the second half of October 2019. While many see regulation as a hindrance to the industry, Tratok’s management have already been clear on our views on regulation and are proud to announce that after close scrutiny by legally qualified and licensed professionals, we are confident that our platform, project and legal structure are fully in symbiosis with the legal environment. This setup took a lot of time, money and restructuring to become fully compliant, however it is an essential foundation for the next stages of development. Before look to the road ahead, our team wishes to share a few highlights…