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Omio is an online travel platform where people compare and book train, bus, flight and ferry tickets across Europe and beyond.
Omio is a travel booking website and app. You type in where you want to go and when, and it shows you the trains, buses, flights and ferries that can get you there, with prices and times side by side. Then you book the ticket right there instead of hopping between a dozen different rail and bus company websites.
The company started life as GoEuro, founded in Berlin in 2013 by Naren Shaam, an engineer who had struggled to plan a trip across Europe using scattered, country-specific booking sites. The idea was to put all of Europe's fragmented transport into one search box. It rebranded as Omio in 2019 to signal that it was going global, and today it's headquartered in Berlin and sells tickets for travel well beyond Europe too. Omio makes money by earning a commission or booking fee on the tickets it sells, so it doesn't own trains or run buses — it's the middleman that connects travelers with transport operators. That makes it a marketplace: the more people search and book, the more it earns, but it depends on keeping good relationships with hundreds of rail, bus, and airline partners whose inventory it resells. Its main competition comes from the operators' own websites and from other travel search and booking tools.
The business has grown on the back of Europe's messy, multi-operator travel market, where crossing a border often means dealing with a different company and a different website. Omio's pitch is convenience: one place to compare and pay, with customer support in multiple languages. The catch is that it lives on thin margins and heavy competition, and its fortunes rise and fall with travel demand — a lesson the whole industry learned when the pandemic emptied out trains and airports. For a traveler, it's a handy shortcut; for investors, it's a bet on Europe's long, slow shift toward booking travel online in one place.
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