{"id":28369,"date":"2015-02-06T14:30:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T13:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=28369"},"modified":"2015-02-06T14:30:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T13:30:26","slug":"kelbillet-expands-uk-launch-pan-european-brand-gopili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2015\/02\/kelbillet-expands-uk-launch-pan-european-brand-gopili\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelbillet expands to the UK with launch of pan-European brand Gopili"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gopili\"
\nIn just under five years, Kelbillet<\/a> has grown massively from a site to sell unwanted train tickets to become the leading travel search engine in France. \u00a0Unlike sites like Expedia, Travelzoo, Travelocity or even SNCF, Kelbillet’s biggest strength is that they help\u00a0you figure out how to get from point A to point B domestically on more than 80k journey options, often as cheaply as possible and taking into account various types of transportation options (train, rideshare, plane, and buses). \u00a0Now Kelbillet will bring their highly successful model to the UK with the launch of its new brand\u00a0Gopili<\/a>.
\nIn speaking about their new launch, Founder and CEO\u00a0Yann Raoul adds:
\n“We have decided to create a new brand for this new service which aims to provide visitors with the\u00a0best travel options for domestic journeys in each European country.\u00a0The name ‘Gopili’ has been chosen by the team following several brainstorming\u00a0sessions. It is simple, friendly, easy to write and pronounce in the different European languages \u2026and the domain name was available! ”
\nWhile Gopili will first be launched in the UK, it was conceived as a pan-European platform, so the UK is a mere first step. However, focusing first on the UK market makes a lot of strategic sense for Kelbillet given the UK’s “fully grown transport market with a high level of competition between the different means of\u00a0transportation and English is the universal language on the Internet so it provides maximum visibility,” in the words of Raoul.
\nKelbillet’s expansion project is an audacious one as their objective is to become the\u00a0leading multimodal search engine for domestic and short-haul trips in Europe, which is not small feat given the numerous online travel players in the European market. However, they’ve certainly have a strong experience and a solid customer base behind them as well as a 2 million euro\u00a0investment coming from
\nBpifrance & CIC Entreprises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In just under five years, Kelbillet has grown massively from a site to sell unwanted train tickets to become the leading travel search engine in France. \u00a0Unlike sites like Expedia, Travelzoo, Travelocity or even SNCF, Kelbillet’s biggest strength is that they help\u00a0you figure out how to get from point A to point B domestically on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":28370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}