Hi.
Kindly create new thread or link this to existing one if you deem it fit. I searched a lot but could not find anything relevant.

The idea is as follows.

Fellow XBHPians who have confirmed a certain tour can update ,say, an excel file which will contain tours they will be undertaking sorted out by date.

Just to keep things transparent, one can be told to display some proof of performing the tour as confirmation.
Ex: If I want to perform a tour to say Banglore on say 25th Dec, 2015, then I should show a hotel reservation, or something like that or then just based on trust. One can be assigned trust points like driving license. One can be given 5 stars already and any failure to not perform an confirmed ride should lead to deduction of stars. A buffer time can be allocated, say if someone cancels a confirmed tour 15 days earlier, no deductions in stars, if 10 days earlier, half a star or something like that. One of the other prespectives to be considered is that say if 2 people(A and B) initiated the tour and confirmed it and say 3 more people(X,Y and Z) joined the tour. Then say L and M joined the tour. Now say A and B back off from the tour. But X,Y,Z,L and M are still doing it, so the tour has not been cancelled. So something like that needs to be worked upon. Lets see.

Tours may also be put on "not confirmed status" with reasons like "waiting for people to join",etc.. that can be decided later if the idea is approved.

It is completely upto the XBHPian to do this(I mean the XBHPian can keep his tour private or public)

This would provide moral support to other XBHPians who are touring to the same place or want to join someone. Ex: 25th Dec,2015 to 27th Dec 2015 is a three day holiday. Say, I want to tour to Banglore. If I somehow knew that so and so XBHPian is also going to Banglore the same day, lone or 2/3 riders can get moral support by riding in a bigger group, more the merrier.

So, I as an XBHpian has to just look at the excel file and see whether someone is touring to the place I want to, or can randomly join someone.

The idea arose from the fact that I will be SOLO touring Rann of Kutch this December. I wish I could know whether fellow XBHPians are also going or not, is some XBHPian going here again? etc.. If I were to know of interested XBHPians who are also going rann or want to go to rann, it will be great. There should not be any compulsion whatsoever and people should respect others privacy also. I mean it should not happen like I go to Banglore on 25th Dec, come back, put a travelogue and people curse you that why didnt you inform earlier, even I was going there only. If people want to keep their upcoming tour private, it is upto them, if public, it is upto them.

I dont know how practical this. I mean to make it practical, if you deem it fit, one has to have a central repository of upcoming tours or one common link, not the thread/post like method, only my suggestion.

All the points in this idea are just suggestions.

Regards,
Parvez