[1] The company is based in Melbourne, Australia, and is owned by the German online travel comparison and booking website Omio.

Rome2Rio was founded by Bernhard Tschirren and Michael Cameron, former Microsoft software engineers, who began working on the project in September 2010.

[12] In July 2015, Rome2Rio announced that support for its white-label product would cease in January 2016 due to development resource pressures from rapid growth in its consumer business.

[13] Initially, the company offered both white-label products and application programming interface options for partners integrating its multimodal results into websites and mobile apps.

[15] In April 2017, Rod Cuthbert became Executive Chairman, Michael Cameron became CEO, and Bernie Tschirren was appointed Chief Architect.