"""People have a need to take things home from a sacred, extraordinary time or place because home is equated with the ordinary and mundane. They can not hold on to the non-ordinary experience, because it's ephemeral by nature, but they can hold on to a tangible piece of it, an object that came from there."""

"""The world as it appears to the tourist, vomits kitsch all over itself."""

"Souvenirs are not really about the object itself, but rather about our relationship to that object."

"In a sense, the search for authenticity in a particular travel souvenir is not so much about the object itself as it is about the traveler's sense of self-identity."

"So why not offer this new, growing group of Web3 users and NFT collectors a way to remember their travel experiences?"

"For the verification of NFT tickets we used Rarepass - a solution developed by our community member andy9029."

"Dinner ticket holders downloaded the app, which recognizes all the NFTs they have in their wallets."

"There is no group photo because we did not ask our ticket holders to sign a GDPR, and since two of the guests are lawyers by profession, we did not want to risk it 🙂 (all kidding aside, we did have a cameraman documenting the experience, and we will get the video to the ticket holders as soon as it is ready)."

"Overall, this dinner is another important step in exploring the opportunities that new technologies like NFTs bring to the hospitality industry."

"The chef knew we had to end on a high note. Not only did we eat our menu, but we ate the design of the NFT as well."