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Travel Tech Supercharged

Take part in the open-source hackathon where developers meet leading travel companies. Collaborate with travel companies, explore blockchain infrastructure, and solve real-world challenges. Ready to build the next travel unicorn on Camino Network?
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Crete, 🇬🇷 Greece
May 6-9, 2025
Decode Travel Crete Greece
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Team Labs BCN, Barcelona, 🇪🇸 Spain
November 26-28, 2025
Decode Travel Berlin Kickoff
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//Why attend
5 reasons why
to participate
Travel Companies
Stay ahead in the dynamic travel industry
Playground for innovation
At Decode, you'll find a canvas of limitless possibilities. Your challenges can be as creative and ambitious as you imagine.
Team Spirit & Knowledge Boost
Collaborating on challenges will foster teamwork, and lets your in-house developers tap into web3 technologies.
Fresh Insights
Gain fresh perspectives and innovative ideas from external participants competing in your challenge.
Rapid Turnaround
In just a few days, you'll see innovative solutions emerge. Decode's fast-paced environment allows for quick results and immediate implementation.
Effective Marketing
Participating in Decode allows you to showcase your brand's commitment to innovation and growth.
Decoders
Embark on a web3 travel tech journey.
Playground for innovation
At Decode, you have the chance to win great prizes. Your skills and dedication could be rewarded generously.
Visibility
Be seen by leading travel companies who may even consider you for employment. Your participation could lead to exciting career opportunities.
For the Experience
Decode is more than a contest; it's an experience. Work with diverse teams on real-world challenges and sharpen your skills while making a tangible impact.
Real-World Solutions
Your solutions have the potential to add real value to the travel industry. Your work can lead to improvements and innovations that matter.
Learning Opportunities
Engage with experts, acquire new skills and gain hands-on experience in emerging web3 technologies and travel tech.
//Technology
Use cutting-edge
web3 technology
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Leverage Camino Network, the L1 blockchain designed for the travel industry.

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Use Camino Messenger as a powerful messaging tool for travel distribution.

//New Challenges
Innovation
Challenges 2025

Dive deep into cutting-edge challenges that push the boundaries of travel technology and web3 innovation.

Today, most of these operations rely on fragmented systems and manual reports, making coordination complex and performance hard to verify. This challenge invites participants to design a blockchain-powered digital checklist that records every operational step of an aircraft turnaround as an immutable transaction on Camino Network. The goal: real-time traceability, transparent coordination, and verifiable compliance across all ground operations.

Participants will build a decentralized application (dApp) that uses smart contracts to record task completions, generate automated turnaround certifications, and offer full on-chain visibility to all stakeholders. The result — faster coordination, fewer delays, and a new level of trust in airline operations.

This challenge explores how smart contracts on Camino Network can automate the full supplier payment cycle: from service registration to validation and instant payment execution. Using blockchain-based logic, payments are released automatically once pre-set conditions are met — ensuring transparency, trust, and speed.

Participants will prototype a dApp that simulates real-time fuel settlement, recording services on-chain and executing payments in CAM tokens on Camino's Columbus testnet. The goal is to show how blockchain can streamline airline finance — reducing disputes, improving liquidity, and strengthening supplier relationships.

The system must ensure authentic user verification and secure the entire journey from legitimate purchase through to access control redemption. Focus on fraud prevention through cross-channel identity verification, detect suspicious purchasing patterns across distribution channels, and implement robust authentication mechanisms.

Enable legitimate ticket holders to resell with smart contract-enforced price caps and automated commission distribution to original sellers. Optionally offer buy-back mechanisms for event organizers.

Use Camino Network's NFT ticketing infrastructure with optional Camino Messenger integration for off-chain encrypted communication that abstracts blockchain complexity. The solution should optimize for security, transparency in supplier selection and pricing, and seamless user experience from purchase verification through final redemption at access control.

The system should provide fraud-resistant handling of bookings, cancellations, and importantly, modifications (as additional blockchain transactions). The dApp must ensure traceable, tamper-proof reporting, minimizing manual reconciliation efforts. Facilitate transparent reconciliation with guaranteed audit trails accessible to all stakeholders.

Since bookings on chain are immutable, handle modifications as additional transactions that update the booking state. Use "stacked NFTs" or linked tokens to represent modifications and the current state of the booking. Propose a Camino Messenger Format for Modification.

Upon receiving a confirmed booking with a known end-consumer's digital wallet address, the system should intelligently propose personalized upsell offers that match the guest's preferences and profile, avoiding irrelevant or annoying push offers.

Use the blockchain wallet address associated with the guest to securely create/link to their historical CRM or loyalty profile data (preferences, past stays, spend patterns). Use AI to analyse (mocked) CRM data, past booking context, and guest behaviour to generate upsell offers (room upgrades, dining, spa, experiences) with high relevance and likelihood of acceptance.

Create logic to analyse booking requests and intelligently match them with suitable travel suppliers based on destination, service type, price range, and quality metrics. Implement a supplier discovery mechanism that maintains an updated catalogue of available services and their capabilities.

Enable instant payments using on-chain currency USDC or Monerium's EURe currency through blockchain infrastructure. The system should optimize for both speed and cost-effectiveness while maintaining transparency in supplier selection and pricing.

The goal is to rethink how travellers interact with destinations so they become genuine fans who care for the places they experience and contribute positively to their ongoing vitality.

Participants are encouraged to imagine systems that help travellers discover lesser-known places, reduce congestion at hotspots, or promote low-impact behaviour through data intelligence and transparent technology. Approaches might use digital identity, blockchain, or smart data flows to inspire responsible choices and fair value exchange across the tourism ecosystem. Ideas could range from tools that surface real-time visitor insights, to rewards that encourage off-peak exploration, or platforms that connect travellers, operators, and destinations more meaningfully.

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Decode Travel 2024 in Berlin

8 teams, 4 challenges: Decode Travel in Berlin

The first web3 travel hackathon was a success, bringing together international Decoders from product managers to backend and blockchain developers to work on challenges posed by major travel companies.
//DATE:
April 23-26, 2024
//LOCATION:
w3.hub Berlin, 🇩🇪 Germany