What is it about?

Buying tour and attraction tickets often means high fees, security risks, and relying on companies that control everything.The proposed system built a new ticketing system using blockchain that fixes these problems. The system has no transaction fees because trusted validators process tickets instead of expensive computer operations. Unlike traditional platforms run by one company, our system is decentralized—no single point can fail. This makes ticketing cheaper, safer, and more reliable for tour operators and travelers.

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Why is it important?

Blockchain ticketing systems typically charge high transaction fees, but our system eliminates these costs entirely while maintaining robust security. Our dynamic security mechanism generates new encryption keys whenever travel party members change. Even if a single key is compromised, all data remains fully protected—freeing operators from the trade-off between affordability and security. This demonstrates blockchain's practical application in everyday scenarios and holds promise to revolutionize ticketing systems across travel, transportation, and entertainment industries.

Perspectives

This project showed me blockchain can solve real problems beyond cryptocurrency. What excites me most: if blockchain works for travel tickets, it could transform concert, sports, and transit ticketing too. I hope this shifts blockchain talk from speculation to practical uses that help everyday people. The travel industry is just the start.

Shu-Ping Lu
Fu Jen Catholic University

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This page is a summary of: A Decentralized Gas-Free E-Ticket Tourism System with Dynamic Security: A Blockchain-based Approach, November 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3649601.3698730.
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