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Introducing the 2018 Global Flight Price Ranking

What's the world's cheapest airlines on international and domestic routes? We reveal all in our 2018 Global Flight Price Ranking.

Posted May 23, 2018 Read more ›

Automatic layout of schematic transit maps

Schematic maps are a fantastic tool for everyday use on public transport. They are intuitive, fast to read, elegantly designed and most importantly, we have them for most cities. Take the famous London Tube map for example. How do I go from…

Posted February 2, 2018 Read more ›

Christmas booking trends 2017

We like to think of Rome2rio as a tool that people use extensively for travel planning, as well as on-the-go bookings. The Christmas holiday season has been a great case study for how people use Rome2rio, because the majority of…

Posted December 22, 2017 Read more ›

Hotel bookings on Rome2rio: when, how long, how far ahead?

Choosing and booking accommodation is an integral part of planning a trip. In 2016, Rome2rio users made over 53,000 bookings with our hotel booking partners. I’ve recently dived into this collection of bookings and explored when users stay, how long they…

Posted June 28, 2017 Read more ›

Introducing the Global Flight Pricing ranking

When Rome2rio first wrote about this topic, back in December 2012, we didn’t realise how much interest our analysis would generate. Tnooz also carried the post as a guest article, and between them, the two pages attracted thousands of readers:…

Posted July 26, 2016 Read more ›

HTTPS results in 7% Google AdX revenue drop

For some time now, Google has been publicly encouraging website owners to transition to HTTPS, a more secure version of the ubiquitous HTTP protocol that powers the web. You can identify websites that use HTTPS with the padlock symbol in the…

Posted April 18, 2016 Read more ›

Earlybirds and Monday dreamers: uncovering international search trends

With our unique repository of 750,000 travel routes from over 4,800 operators in 144 countries, Rome2rio attracts over 7 million visitors each month. While the searches conducted by these visitors are varied; from short distance intra-city searches to multihop long haul…

Posted February 22, 2016 Read more ›

A map goes unexpectedly viral, with help from Reddit & Gizmodo

Recent media coverage of the isochronic map we developed, based on a 1914 map by the well-known London mapmaker John G. Bartholomew, provides a classic case study on how quickly things can flourish online. (We wrote about the map and…

Posted February 9, 2016 Read more ›

The places we’ll go: 2015 Australian travel trends

Australians are a well-travelled bunch – the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reports that in 2014, over 9 million Australians headed overseas. Members of the Rome2rio team are no exception, having recently been to Toblach and San Gimignano in Italy, Alpe d’Huez in…

Posted January 27, 2016 Read more ›

Visualising popular travel destinations through heatmaps

Rome2rio provides users with multi-modal travel directions to destinations that range from large cities down to exact addresses. With over 200,000 visitors daily, this provides us with a unique repository of data about travelers’ preferences for various destinations. Visualizing this data as heatmaps of…

Posted April 17, 2015 Read more ›

Airline fare analysis: comparing cost per mile

NB: A version of this blog post first appeared as a special guest post on Tnooz. As we continue to improve the Rome2rio multi-modal search technology, we are starting to integrate pricing data into the system to help make sensible…

Posted January 2, 2013 Read more ›