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🇫🇷 Destinations in France
As a pioneer of online bus comparison sites, particularly for long-distance travel, ComparaBUS managed to earn credibility with French and European transport companies. This is mainly why the ComparaBUS site lists offers from all French transport companies. Likewise, ComparaBUS offers tickets departing from and arriving at every station in France — not bad at all! ComparaBUS's coverage of France can therefore appear to be "total". However, when it comes to the terms intermodality and opening up remote areas, coverage of France is a real challenge. Stations alone are obviously not enough to offer a mobility solution to all French citizens. Thanks to its combinations, Tictactrip aims to provide this opening-up and this mobility. Tictactrip's coverage of France aims to become total across our national territory.
🚌 Types of transport compared
ComparaBus, as a multimodal comparison site, analyses and offers you the best transport deals for your chosen destinations. Comparabus offers its services for 4 types of transport:
However, it does not compare these different modes of transport with each other. You won't easily be able to see the price differences between train and bus, and the same goes for journey times and schedules. Indeed, ComparaBus has a separate comparison page for each type of transport. The little trick is to open 4 web pages on the ComparaBus site if you want to more easily compare these tickets, but that isn't very well optimised, we admit it.
The Tictactrip site, on the other hand, once you've chosen your destination and dates, shows you all offers from the different types of transport as well as combination offers. Nothing could be simpler for choosing the tickets that suit you best! However, due to its combinations, the Tictactrip site only takes overland transport into account. Indeed, Tictactrip aims to be the expert in smart combinations for overland intermodality and has therefore chosen not to move into flight offers.
- Train
- Bus
- Carpooling
- Plane
However, it does not compare these different modes of transport with each other. You won't easily be able to see the price differences between train and bus, and the same goes for journey times and schedules. Indeed, ComparaBus has a separate comparison page for each type of transport. The little trick is to open 4 web pages on the ComparaBus site if you want to more easily compare these tickets, but that isn't very well optimised, we admit it.
The Tictactrip site, on the other hand, once you've chosen your destination and dates, shows you all offers from the different types of transport as well as combination offers. Nothing could be simpler for choosing the tickets that suit you best! However, due to its combinations, the Tictactrip site only takes overland transport into account. Indeed, Tictactrip aims to be the expert in smart combinations for overland intermodality and has therefore chosen not to move into flight offers.
🛸 Intermodality & combinations
Intermodality — what is this somewhat off-putting word at first glance? According to Wikipedia, it refers to "the use of several modes of transport during a single journey.". In other words, and to illustrate the point, it means taking a train and then a bus, for example, to reach your destination. You then combine a train and a bus during your journey, and in the best possible way, with schedules synchronised so that it means a saving of time and money for you. This is precisely why we so often mention the terms intermodality and/or combinations.
Comparabus does not have the technology to offer such a service to its customers. Its partnerships with more than a hundred companies and its technology are aimed solely at comparing offers for journeys by type of transport.
The Tictactrip platform, on the other hand, proposes and even champions this intermodality. Indeed, the very concept of Tictactrip is to offer these efficient and smart solutions in order to meet the essential needs of today's travelling customers and users, namely saving time and money. Lastly, Tictactrip is committed to a much bigger goal: an ideal of opening up remote French regions so that everyone can travel as they wish, easily. Mobility for all is therefore a major concern for Tictactrip.
🏷 Prices adjusted in real time
Real-time adjusted prices are truly important for users and customers of a transport comparison site. Why? Because if ticket prices aren't updated according to fluctuations, customers end up being "misled". For example, you finally find the ticket that suits you, so you get redirected to the partner company's website to complete the transaction. But then, cold shower: the price is actually €15 more expensive! Or there are no more tickets for that time slot... This is bound to be an unpleasant surprise for the customer. Having real-time adjusted prices avoids all these inconveniences. The ComparaBUS site does not have this real-time price adjustment.
Conversely, the Tictactrip online platform guarantees you this level of service. This lets you compare, combine and book your trip with total peace of mind!
Conversely, the Tictactrip online platform guarantees you this level of service. This lets you compare, combine and book your trip with total peace of mind!
📲 In-app purchases
In-app purchases refer to a website's ability to accept payments, and therefore to sell tickets as a comparison site. The ComparaBUS site does not offer this in-app purchase service. For example, you cannot book ComparaBUS Paris Brussels tickets. You will always be redirected to the website of ComparaBUS's partner company offering the tickets you're after. This is, in fact, how the ComparaBUS site earns money — through commissions based on the traffic of users redirected to the company and their subsequent purchases.
As for the Tictactrip site, in-app purchases are not currently available, but they are in the pipeline and will make their very soon appearance on the site! This means you'll be able to directly and easily book your tickets for bus, train and/or carpooling in just a few clicks!
As for the Tictactrip site, in-app purchases are not currently available, but they are in the pipeline and will make their very soon appearance on the site! This means you'll be able to directly and easily book your tickets for bus, train and/or carpooling in just a few clicks!
🌍 Destinations served in Europe
Most transport ticket comparison sites don't limit themselves to serving France alone, and for the sake of their customers' interests, they're quite right to do so! This is notably the case for ComparaBUS. With its roughly hundred partner transport companies, ComparaBUS offers its customers journeys covering more than 4,000 destinations in Europe, including more than 250 French destinations. This is made possible in particular by the 1,500 possible French routes with ComparaBUS. What's more, since ComparaBUS also compares flight offers, it had to cover a large number of European destinations.
The Tictactrip platform, meanwhile, offers deals in 31 of Europe's 51 countries. You'll also find journeys departing from and arriving at no fewer than 3,700 cities, which is quite substantial without offering any air travel! This is due in particular to the platform's hundred or so partner companies. Furthermore, in connection with the intermodality offered by Tictactrip, it counts more than 50 million possible and effective combinations! What do you think of that, not bad, right?! We hope even more that these will meet your needs!
The Tictactrip platform, meanwhile, offers deals in 31 of Europe's 51 countries. You'll also find journeys departing from and arriving at no fewer than 3,700 cities, which is quite substantial without offering any air travel! This is due in particular to the platform's hundred or so partner companies. Furthermore, in connection with the intermodality offered by Tictactrip, it counts more than 50 million possible and effective combinations! What do you think of that, not bad, right?! We hope even more that these will meet your needs!
History of the ComparaBUS comparison site
ComparaBUS.com was born in 2012, the brainchild of Rémy Mellet. This computer engineer stumbled one day upon a problem that pushed him to create ComparaBUS: wanting to compare prices for a trip between Paris and London. At the time, no comparison site yet existed for long-distance journeys. "But how could ComparaBUS actually be useful to me?" is probably the question you're asking yourself right now. Don't worry, we'll explain it all right away!
ComparaBUS was, first and foremost, a price comparison site for long-distance bus travel offers, hence its name, as you'll have gathered. It later diversified into other overland modes of transport with train and carpooling, and then also with plane. ComparaBUS.com thus became a genuine transport ticket comparison site, but it doesn't compare prices, journey times and schedules between these different modes of transport. What's more, today it has the limitation of being just another ticket comparison site, of which there are many, blossoming in numbers since the Macron law of 2015 and the emergence of Macron coaches.
Platforms such as Tictactrip have also emerged, offering much more than simple comparison and bringing real added value for you, dear users and customers. Indeed, Tictactrip in particular, on top of comparing journey offers, provides smart combinations of these offers. We use this technology to give you the best price/time ratio for your journey — clever, isn't it?
ComparaBUS was, first and foremost, a price comparison site for long-distance bus travel offers, hence its name, as you'll have gathered. It later diversified into other overland modes of transport with train and carpooling, and then also with plane. ComparaBUS.com thus became a genuine transport ticket comparison site, but it doesn't compare prices, journey times and schedules between these different modes of transport. What's more, today it has the limitation of being just another ticket comparison site, of which there are many, blossoming in numbers since the Macron law of 2015 and the emergence of Macron coaches.
Platforms such as Tictactrip have also emerged, offering much more than simple comparison and bringing real added value for you, dear users and customers. Indeed, Tictactrip in particular, on top of comparing journey offers, provides smart combinations of these offers. We use this technology to give you the best price/time ratio for your journey — clever, isn't it?
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