{"id":158045,"date":"2023-10-03T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=158045"},"modified":"2023-09-28T15:16:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T13:16:39","slug":"kombo-italy-spain-corporate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/kombo-italy-spain-corporate","title":{"rendered":"Kombo launches in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Started at a slow pace with ticket sales for <strong>bus <\/strong>last January, followed by the <strong>railway company Italo<\/strong> in August, <strong>Kombo <\/strong>is making its arrival on the market official at the start of the 2023 academic year. <strong>Italian market<\/strong> with the option of booking online <strong>seven languages<\/strong>. \"\u00a0<em>We have gone from \u20ac30,000 in sales to \u20ac150,000 per month over this period. <strong>we are aiming to reach the million euro mark in monthly sales<\/strong><\/em>\" says Matthieu Marquenet, the managing director and co-founder in 2016 of this multimodal platform that markets <strong>train, bus and plane tickets <\/strong>as well as a range of <strong>carpooling <\/strong>based on partnerships. As in <strong>France<\/strong>she will find <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/table-ronde-trainline-concurrence-20220914.html\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trainline <\/a><\/strong>as its main competitor in this market. Matthieu Marquenet adds: \"\u00a0<em>Le <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/concurrence-ferroviaire-italie-20190114.html\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Italian market is already very open to competition<\/a> with face to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/roberto-rinaudo-president-trenitalia-france-20230102.html\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trenitalia <\/a><\/strong>Italo, which has a 30% market share on routes serving some thirty towns, as well as a number of bus operators.<\/em>\" . This rail competition has led to <strong>40 % reduction in tariffs <\/strong>on lines where both operators are present. In the meantime <strong>2026 <\/strong>and the <strong>SNCF Ouigo <\/strong>that <strong>Kombo <\/strong>immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/kombo-matthieu-marquenet.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-158079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/kombo-matthieu-marquenet.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/kombo-matthieu-marquenet-300x218-derived.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/kombo-matthieu-marquenet-324x235-derived.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>Matthieu Marquenet, Managing Director and co-founder of Kombo<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-varenne-quote\"><blockquote><p>offer Renfe's full range of services not only in Spain but also in France on the two existing lines<\/p><cite>Matthieu Marquenet<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/aside>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-l-espagne-dans-les-starting-blocks\">Spain in the starting-blocks <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After Italy, Kombo's development teams are already working on the<strong>Spain <\/strong>with the opening of sales next January by Renfe, the Spanish railway company. \"\u00a0<em>Technological developments are underway that will enable us to offer the full range of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/renfe-liaisons-france-espagne-20230616.html\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Renfe <\/a>in Spain as well as in France on the two existing lines<\/em>\" says Matthieu Marquenet. However, sales have already been made to this destination, with Kombo distributing tickets for <strong>Ouigo Spain <\/strong>and<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/iryo-espagne-trenitalia-20221122.html\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Iryo<\/a><\/strong> taking into account its agreements and connections to the respective inventories of the <strong>SNCF <\/strong>and <strong>Trenitalia<\/strong>. For the same reasons, Kombo already offers the international rail services of<strong>Eurostar<\/strong>of <strong>Thalys <\/strong>and<strong>Alleo<\/strong>. The addition of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/deutsche-bahn-un-demantelement-pour-stimuler-la-concurrence-20230424.html\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deutsche Bahn<\/a> <\/strong>for Germany should be the next stone in the building, after the <strong>Renfe<\/strong>confides the founder. These developments give him hope for a <strong>business volume of \u20ac35m by 2023<\/strong>, \"\u00a0<em>Kombo triples its sales figures from one year to the next<\/em>\" .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Business passengers discovering Kombo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\"\u00a0<em>Our clientele is primarily made up of young people who compare prices and choose their company on the basis of the best rates available at the time.<\/em>\" he observes. He does, however, note a <strong>small proportion of business travellers <\/strong>since Kombo introduced the <strong>download invoices<\/strong> and sending them by email. \"\u00a0<em>They are self-employed and small structures such as law firms or consultancies\". <\/em>The platform does not yet have any contracts with companies.<em> \"But <strong>we're seriously thinking about it!<\/strong><\/em>\" concludes Matthieu Marquenet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French multimodal booking platform is crossing the Alps to distribute services offered by SNCF, Trenitalia, Italo, airlines and bus companies. Spain will follow in early 2024.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":158077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[1431,1353],"type-darticle":[52],"n_magazine":[],"class_list":["post-158045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ferroviaire","tag-train","tag-compagnies-ferroviaires","type-darticle-breve","vapo-free"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kombo arrive en Italie, prochain arr\u00eat l&#039;Espagne et les contrats corporate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kombo, plateforme fran\u00e7aise de r\u00e9servation multimodale, se lance en Italie. 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