Case Study: Rome2rio achieves faster, scalable travel search with Google Cloud Platform

Delivering intelligent travel planning with Google Maps Platform and BigQuery

Rome2rio, a door-to-door travel booking engine in Australia, needed a way to help travelers quickly search, compare, and plan complex multimodal trips across millions of destinations worldwide. Using Google Cloud Platform, especially Google Maps Platform tools like Geocoding API, Distance Matrix API, Places API, and Maps Static API, Rome2rio improved search accuracy, mobile experience, and page speed while supporting growing global demand.

Google Cloud Platform helped Rome2rio analyze more than 500,000 unique visits per day and scale to 100,000 Google Maps Platform API requests daily, enabling route planning for over two million destinations. The solution supported 40% business growth, made landing pages load in milliseconds, and improved relevance and developer efficiency, helping Rome2rio deliver fast, reliable travel results at scale.

Rome2rio

Ash Verdoorn

Head of Engineering