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Hello everyone out there

    I've been on BW for a few months and I'm trying to find a way to get more guests.

In this regard,I think the trips plans thing looks good and it has potential, in particular for places that don't get an huge amount of tourists. The idea would be to look for a trip plan passing near by and try to "de-route" it off the beaten track.  Also, it could  function as a last moment accommodation search (I think I've alredy seen someone suggesting it somewhere).

So the suggestion would be: could it be possible to set up an email alert for trip passing near you in a certain km radius? I agree that it's not top priority and that there are not a huge number of trip plans out there, but you never know.

Cheers

I have seen also another bad bug in the trip section: it is missing a date field. Most of messages talk about trips, but do NOT include the dates (some day, a few month, almost noone year).

This is a good section for meeting, possibly could be for getting guests, but without this very important information it is almost unuseful.

Of course shpould be necessary to add a search oftion, that allow to select only trips within a certain period (i would like to ask the poster to set a period, and for search say a single date, and look for trips within that period, also another field should be the country for which the trip is planned, so one can search also by that option.

I think the whole trip tool needs a complete redesign - especially from the usability side. I just created an imaginary trip through Italy, and must i must admit i had my problems to do so.

It is actually possible to add a date and location to a trip: @leoalone, you should see my coming to Florence on your personal startpage, but the way how to create trips definitely needs to be improved.

Anyway i think it's better to gather all suggestions on page and not spread out in the forum. I started a draft here: http://www.bewelcome.org/wiki/Trips

Your valuable ideas are highly appreciated.