Last month we were excited to launch a new mobile web experience for Rome2Rio, greatly improving the experience when visiting…
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Michael and I have just returned from the PhoCusWright Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. This is the online travel industry's annual "must-attend" event, bigger and better attended this year than any in the past. Priceline's $1.8bn acquisition of Ka...
We continue to expand Rome2Rio's database of train, bus and ferry routes. Today we're happy to announce new coverage that is particularly useful for our users in India, or anyone travelling to the subcontinent. Thanks to a partnership with RedBus,...
As of today, Rome2Rio is officially no longer in beta. We're excited that the product is now stable, relevant, and polished enough for us to confidently drop the beta tag. Of course, this doesn't mean the product is complete. Far…
We're pleased to announce that Rome2Rio is on stage at a couple of important events over the next two months. On October 23, in Sydney, Rod will be presenting Rome2Rio at the annual Tech23 "Celebrating Innovation" awards, hosted by the…
Over the last few months we have made some drastic under-the-hood changes to rome2rio that probably won't be noticed by most our users, but are important developments for our business. Until recently, rome2rio has relied upon technology provided b...
Since we launched rome2rio last year, support for multi-hop trips has been the single most requested feature. Our users wanted to be able to construct a complex journey, visiting several destinations by combining various modes of transport, and sa...
Eighteen months ago Bernie Tschirren and I returned to Australia from the US, where we had both worked at Microsoft, to found Rome2Rio and develop a travel search engine capable of searching flights, trains, ferry, buses and driving directions all...
We are excited to announce that Rome2Rio has just closed a $450,000 seed funding round. Investors in the round are the Melbourne entrepreneurs Guy King & Bevan Clark — founders and former owners of RetailMeNot, which was acquired recently by…
Rome2Rio boasts the largest repository of transport routes available online, and we are continuing to add more transport regularly. This week we completed the addition of all bus routes operated by Greyhound Australia to the site. Greyhound cover ...
We are continuing to work hard at adding more train, bus and ferry routes across the globe to rome2rio. This week's addition is a big one - the entire rail network of Japan has been added to the site. Japan…
Today we launched the first non-English version of rome2rio. Thanks to the efforts of rome2rio fans Markus Teuber and Bodo von Billerbeck, we have translated the site for German speaking users: If you'd like to try the site out in…
We're continuing to build out rome2rio to offer a complete travel product to our users. This week's addition is rental car search, which is offered through a partnership with Car Trawler. To search for rental cars, select the cars window…
We've added a new feature to rome2rio that makes it easier to explore your transport options. To activate the feature, click on the Transport button at the top-right corner of the map. This will activate a new transport view, where…
Yesterday the one millionth query was issued on rome2rio since we launch the site in April last year. A user from Portland, Oregon searched how to get from Portland Airport to Pistol River. Rome2Rio nailed the query by presenting several…
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…