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Travel tech company Rome2rio appoints director of communications

Travel tech company Rome2rio has appointed Kirsteene Phelan as director of communications.

Kirsteene Phelan copyPhelan was most recently the Australian PR and communications manager for online craft and design marketplace Etsy.com.

Rod Cuthbert, CEO of Rome2rio, said in a statement: “Multimodal search is a new and unfamiliar topic to many people. We are essentially a complex, data-driven technology company operating in global consumer travel market. We have done a good job using SEO to become the market leader however we are now looking to tell our company stories in new and compelling ways. Kirsteene’s experience and understanding of our company and our objectives make her a perfect fit.”

Commenting on her appointment, Phelan said in a statement:  ”I’m thrilled to be joining the Rome2rio team and to be combining my twin interests of storytelling and travel. Rome2rio has access to a deep repository of interesting data, ready to be crafted into compelling content and I’m looking forward to collaborating with such a talented team.”

Phelan is based in Melbourne.

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