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Celebrating 500k: traffic grows, and we have too

Last Monday Rome2rio cracked 512,868 unique visits. The journey from small startup to a global travel search engine that’s known and respected globally has been fast, sometimes furious, and always a lot of fun. At this milestone, we are taking…

Posted July 4, 2017 Read more ›

Announcing direct UK rail bookings on Rome2rio

Rome2rio makes travel easy – providing a full range of air, rail, bus, rideshare, ferry and self-drive options for you to choose from. Once you’ve found your perfect mode of travel, it’s time to book your ticket! Rome2rio users are…

Posted May 11, 2016 Read more ›

Advance booking alert function launches

Rome2rio announced today the launch of its Advance Booking Alert function, aimed at ensuring travelers are fully informed when transport operators require or recommend advance reservations for their services. The Rome2rio site now displays an alert alongside schedules that indicates whether advance…

Posted August 28, 2015 Read more ›

Announcing user accounts and search history

We have launched support for user accounts on Rome2rio, providing users with the ability to browse their search history, and save their favourite trips. To create an account, simply click the Sign up button at the top of the page: You can access…

Posted August 11, 2015 Read more ›

Rome2rio partners with Loco2 to provide integrated rail fares & booking

Thanks to a recently launched integration with UK-based Loco2, Rome2rio users can now search and select European train tickets on the site. Try this new feature by clicking on the Schedules & Book button that is displayed for many train routes such as Paris to Avignon:…

Posted January 6, 2015 Read more ›

Rome2rio announces Concur collaboration

Rome2rio today announced a partnership with Concur, the world’s leading provider of spend management solutions and services, to bring Rome2rio’s journey planning solutions to Concur users worldwide. With this partnership, Concur customers will be able to plan a complete door-to-door…

Posted November 8, 2014 Read more ›

Uber & bikeshare options debut on Rome2rio

Sharing economies are on the rise, nowhere moreso than in the transportation sector. With that in mind, Rome2rio users won’t be surprised to learn about the two increasingly popular transport options we’ve added support for this week. Uber is the major…

Posted November 3, 2014 Read more ›

Dissecting user engagement of Rome2rio’s transport images

In July we launched our Transport Images feature which displays insightful photographs of trains, buses and ferries on Rome2rio. Not sure if that ferry between Kuala Besut and Perhentian Besar is a leaky boat or a sophisticated catamaran? Do you reeeaaally want to…

Posted September 29, 2014 Read more ›

Focusing on our global app

​Over the last two years we’ve experimented with various ways of getting Rome2rio’s journey planning technology into the hands of users. Our web-based desktop solution is by far the most popular, with over 3 million unique users each month, and…

Posted September 8, 2014 Read more ›

Rome2rio adds sights & activities and how to get to them

Rome2rio is described by many of our users as a trip planner – an essential tool for early, high-level crafting of the itinerary for your trip. When we thinking about trip planning, we think of three key elements: Where to go and how…

Posted August 25, 2014 Read more ›

Transportation images add real value to search results

Besides demonstrating that an A380 is a lot bigger and probably more comfortable than a 737, there’s not a lot of consumer value in showing an image of the airplane in a search result. Most of us know what to…

Posted July 20, 2014 Read more ›

11 new features on Rome2rio

Whilst we are continually adding new functionality to Rome2rio, most of our improvements do not warrant a blog post or announcement in their own right. So, here’s a quick summary of 11 recent additions to the Rome2rio website: Directions to the hotel Rome2rio’s…

Posted July 10, 2014 Read more ›

Meta-Search-Plus approach makes for strong traffic growth

The gradual shift away from the established OTA model—Expedia, Orbitz, et al—to newer sites that are either hotel specialists (Booking.com, Venere) or some combination of air & hotel meta-search (Trivago, TripAdvisor, Kayak, Skyscanner) is not an overnight phenomenon. Consumers have taken…

Posted July 3, 2014 Read more ›

On its way out, Commercialisation Australia extends our grant

Back in December 2012 we wrote about our success with the Commercialisation Australia (CA) program, after we were awarded a grant of $385,000 to help us commercialise our technology.  CA has  now approved a significant extension, for a total of…

Posted June 24, 2014 Read more ›

Rome2rio to present at WIT Japan

Rome2rio CEO Rod Cuthbert is making one of the keynote presentations at the upcoming WIT Japan Conference, to be held in Tokyo on May 16. Titled “The Next Chapter In Search” the presentation will look at some of the key…

Posted May 10, 2014 Read more ›

European travel costs to fall as Rideshare arrives on Rome2rio

Travel around Europe is set to become less expensive and easier to plan with the integration of ridesharing options into rome2rio.com. Ridesharing is typically a much more affordable choice than air and rail services, and we’ve made it easy to compare the cost of a rideshare trip to…

Posted March 31, 2014 Read more ›

Rome2rio to present at Berlin’s ITB next month

Rome2rio CEO Rod Cuthbert is making one of the keynote presentations at the upcoming ITB / PhoCusWright Conference, to be held in Berlin on March 5th. Titled “Multi-Modal Travel Search Has Arrived… Now What?” the presentation will offer a wide-ranging…

Posted February 13, 2014 Read more ›

@rome2rio your site is super duper fast. You should blog about your trickery.

Earlier today a fan of Rome2rio tweeted @rome2rio your site is super duper fast. You should blog about your trickery. That sounds like a good idea. While we don’t want to share the nitty-gritty details, we can describe three of the…

Posted February 5, 2014 Read more ›