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Rome2rio graduates to new headquarters in Digital Richmond

It was in the middle of a board meeting that the much anticipated email came through. It was from our landlord Derham Moss; our certificate of occupancy had arrived. It was the last piece of the puzzle. Our new office…

Posted December 6, 2017 Read more ›

Rome2rio retreats to Bali

This July, the Rome2rio team put down tools and headed north for our 5th annual company retreat. This time we took the retreat to a new level and went international; travelling to Bali where we spent the week at the…

Posted August 31, 2017 Read more ›

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 ›

Welcoming new team members to Rome2rio

Life at Rome2rio is busy and the last few months have been no exception as we work on key product improvements to our desktop and web experiences in our effort to make travel easier for everyone. Part of this means…

Posted April 18, 2017 Read more ›

Rome2rio’s 2016 year in review

Running a tech company doesn’t give you much time to stop and review all the great things your team has achieved; the past always seems less important than the work you’re doing right now. However, 2016 was such a banner…

Posted January 16, 2017 Read more ›

Welcoming Katie, Tim & Alex

Rome2rio is expanding in every direction; launching onsite ticket bookings, introducing our Global Flight Pricing Ranking and now, welcoming new people to our team. We are pleased to introduce Katie, Tim, and Alex. Katie joins us after completing her BSc in…

Posted July 29, 2016 Read more ›

My work experience at Rome2rio

Today’s post come from Christopher who has recently joined our team as a work experience developer – Enjoy! My name is Christopher, and in June 2016 I was lucky enough to have the wonderful experience of doing work experience for…

Posted July 1, 2016 Read more ›

Welcome Christopher and Phoebe

Rome2rio  is pleased to be able to support the next generation of computer science talent from home and abroad. We are delighted to introduce two special new members to our team; Christopher and Phoebe. Phoebe joins us as an intern in our…

Posted June 24, 2016 Read more ›

Welcoming Chantelle, Jordan, and Liz to Rome2rio

The team at Rome2rio continues to grow apace. This month we’ve added a trio of top talent to our team. Meet Chantelle, Jordan, and Liz. Chantelle has almost ten years digital project management experience delivering online solutions within both agency…

Posted April 28, 2016 Read more ›

Welcome Archit, Kirsteene and Quinn

The new year is well and truly underway and brings with it new team members to Rome2rio. This month we welcome Archit, Kirsteene, and Quinn.

Posted February 4, 2016 Read more ›

Building Rome2rio’s unique engineering culture

When my co-founder Bernie and I began to build the Rome2rio product, we drew heavily on our experience working at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. As time passes and our team grows, we are consciously blending various cultural characteristics of US…

Posted December 14, 2015 Read more ›

Richard, Marty & Andrew join the Rome2rio team

Rome2rio’s development team continues to grow, and this month we welcome three new team members: Richard Fothergill, Marton Bodonyi and Andrew Greig. Richard is completing his Computer Science PhD at the University of Melbourne. He has been studying under Tim Baldwin in the…

Posted October 7, 2015 Read more ›

Fruit Tray Wednesday

Over the last year a new tradition has evolved at Rome2rio team meetings and we call it Fruit Tray Wednesday. Each week a team member will present an analysis of some part of the Rome2rio site or user behavior. The results…

Posted June 5, 2015 Read more ›

Rome2rio’s Development Team expands again

In August this year we wrote about Miles Izzo joining our engineering team, and his experience and ability to tackle some of the pressing problems on our project list. Miles has already shipped several important improvements to the site, including the printable results…

Posted October 8, 2014 Read more ›

Rome2rio expands its Engineering team

We’re excited to announce another addition to the growing Rome2rio engineering team based in Melbourne, Australia. Miles Izzo completed his Software Engineering (Honours) degree back in 2004 and has worked on a range of interesting data science problems during his career so far.…

Posted August 7, 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 ›