[davidverhasselt]

Probably not much less secure than calling and giving your CC to a person jotting it down or emailing with the same details. Most of the hotel custom booking forms look like '90s HTML3 pages so the alternative is usually not better anyway.

[tangue]

It's unfair to compare Booking.com which is the largest adwords buyer in the world to small indie hotels. Let's contrast this with Expedia which have a single use virtual card for each customer. Why can't Booking do the same ?