Yesterday the one millionth query was issued on rome2rio since we launch the site in April last year. A user…
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We're excited to launch a new hotel search component of rome2rio today. When you do a search from, say, New York to Amalfi you will now have the option of viewing accommodation options at your destination. Hotels are listed as…
It's been an exciting past month for us as we steadily improve rome2rio. Our transport coverage is continuing to increase; we've lately improved our rail and bus coverage in Australia, Taiwan, India, and parts of Europe. We've also added more…
In the last week we've pushed out several changes to the site's user interface. We redesigned the experience so that flight schedules and transport information are no longer displayed using pop-outs over the map. Instead, clicking on each leg of…
Last week, we launched North America rail and bus coverage on rome2rio. As part of that release, we also pushed out a new welcome screen experience with a high resolution image of Kleine Scheidegg in Switzerland. Today we begin daily…
As reported by The Next Web - Brilliant visual travel search service Rome2Rio adds US and Canadian train and bus routes - we launched US/Canadian surface transport coverage on rome2rio. Here's a map of the new coverage: Coverage in North…
Whilst rome2rio is well known for its ability to show you how to get from A to B by searching various modes of transport, we have implemented several features that are not immediately obvious to users. Here is a summary…
Last weekend I mentored the participants of the Startup Hackathon here in Melbourne (startuphack.org). In theirs words, "Startup Hackathon is a 48 hour marathon of coding, pizza, and red bull". When we moved to Melbourne to start www.rome2rio.com,...
Morocco is a fascinating place to visit, and it's just a 1-hour ferry ride away from Europe by crossing the strait of Gibraltar from Algeciras, Spain to Tangier, Morocco. Morocco was once a French protectorate, and the influence is still…
The Caribbean is littered with fascinating islands, and hopping between them makes for a unique travel experience. The islands are not as well connected by ferry as, say, the Greek islands. This is largely due to the greater distances between…
It's been a busy week for the rome2rio team. After a bunch of engineering groundwork over the past two months we've been shipping a bunch of changes to the site and adding more transport coverage (mostly trains) around the globe.…
We pushed out another rome2rio release this week. Amongst the changes were the addition of the NYC subway, San Francisco BART and Seattle airport lightrail. We made more routing engine improvements, especially the handling of travel between island...
We pushed out a new version of rome2rio this week. Here are some of the improvements we made: Support entering a country, state or airport code We regularly analyze our search logs to see what sort of queries users are…
The French are known for some pretty impressive engineering feats, such as the Eiffel Tower or TGV Train network. Less well known however is the amazing engineering accomplished by the Les Machines de l'île, an artistic and tourist project based…
Since rome2rio launched, we've received advice from various people in the startup and travel tech industries about rome2rio, and how we can improve the product going forward. The advice has been invaluable and offered freely. So it's only fair tha...
We are excited to announce a new member of the rome2rio team. Ed Hooper will be joining us part-time as Business Development Manager. Ed is a business-minded technology enthusiast and no stranger to the world of startups. For the past…
A few weeks ago Bernie and I visited San Francisco to kick off the launch of the beta version of rome2rio. The launch went well and we received a healthy spike in traffic, some great user feedback, and interest from…
rome2rio can save you money. A lot of money. I'm going to show you how. Image you live in Quebec City. You need to travel to Brussels for business. You do a search on a travel search site like Orbitz…