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Rail Europe and Headout partner to make European train journeys more accessible
Paris, 8 April 2025 – Rail Europe and Headout are excited to announce an expanded partnership through an API integration, enabling Headout to seamlessly offer European train bookings on its platform. This collaboration gives travellers direct access to Rail Europe’s extensive train network, simplifying the booking process and ensuring a smooth user experience.
By integrating Rail Europe’s technology, Headout can provide real-time availability, dynamic pricing, and instant booking confirmation for European train tickets. This partnership aligns with Rail Europe’s mission to make train travel more accessible while expanding its reach to a wider audience through Headout’s platform.
The partnership first took shape in 2023 with the introduction of rail passes on Headout’s platform, including the Swiss Travel Pass, for unlimited travel in Switzerland, and Eurail/Interrail pass, which provides access to 33 European countries by rail. These passes quickly gained popularity among travellers. Building on this success, Rail Europe and Headout are now expanding their collaboration to offer the iconic scenic trains Bernina Express and Glacier Express, which operate in Switzerland. These breathtaking routes provide passengers with an unparalleled travel experience, allowing them to immerse themselves in the country’s stunning landscapes.
“Our partnership with Rail Europe perfectly aligns with Headout’s mission to connect people to extraordinary real-life experiences,” said Varun Khona, co-founder and CEO at Headout. “This API integration, combined with our product solution for the transportation category, sets a new benchmark in travel marketplaces—offering travellers a seamless and curated way to explore Europe by rail. By expanding our collaboration, we’re making it easier than ever for travelers to immerse themselves in Europe’s scenic beauty, one train ride at a time.”
Björn Bender, CEO & Executive Chairman of Rail Europe, said, "At Rail Europe, we believe that train travel is the most immersive and sustainable way to experience Europe. Our partnership with Headout is an exciting step towards bringing European rail journeys to an even wider global audience. By combining Rail Europe's expertise in rail distribution with Headout’s dynamic platform, we are making it easier than ever for travellers to discover and book European trains. We are excited about this collaboration and the new opportunities it will create for the future of rail travel."
With growing demand for sustainable and convenient travel options, this partnership provides travellers with expanded access to European trains and a seamless booking experience.
About Rail Europe
Rail Europe is the global reference brand for European train booking. We have been the trusted partner of the travel industry and train operators for 90 years. Our rail expert teams provide technology solutions and customer care services to +25,000 partners in more than 70 countries. International travellers who want to travel by train easily throughout Europe can also book their travel directly through our state-of-the-art train booking website and app. Our catalogue of products focuses on 200 rail providers such as SNCF, SBB, Eurostar, Trenitalia, Italo, DB, Renfe, ÖBB, SNCB, Regiojet, iryo, OUIGO Spain and National Rail, and rail passes including the Swiss Travel Pass and Eurail Passes. We sell around 5 million European train tickets every year. Our offices are around the globe and we are headquartered in Paris.
About Headout
Headout is home to the world’s best real-life experiences — from expert-led tours and incredible landmarks to live events and activities, and everything in between.
In a world with increasing time spent on screens, there is a desperate need for a solution that augments the human experience by enabling interaction with the real world and the people in it. Headout’s mission, as a counter to this problem, is to be the easiest, fastest and the most delightful way for all of us to, as the name suggests, head out. It does this by running a managed marketplace where it actively creates and curates its experiences, upgrades the technology and delivery infrastructure for the experience providers and standardises the end service for a given experience across multiple experience providers to deliver a consistent high quality outcome.
It has served 40 million guests from 196 countries around the world across 100+ cities and has generated more than $3B in direct economic impact for the local communities in those cities. It has raised $70M+ from top-tier investors and is headquartered in New York with 11 global offices. For more, head to www.headout.com.
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