Our Story
We don't sell trips.
We create collisions.
ExCo is a community-first travel brand creating invite-led small-group journeys through BHX, Bucketlist, and other ExCo projects. Put people from different cities and different kinds of work in the same place. They start talking, making things, and planning what comes next.
2014 — The Experiment
“What if you put a filmmaker, artist, and musician in a car to somewhere remote?”
In 2014, we put filmmakers, artists, musicians, and founders from different cities into cars and drove through the Himalayas for ten days. Most of them had never met.
The first RTX brought 30 people to Spiti and Lahaul: photographers, musicians, filmmakers, and entrepreneurs. They boarded as strangers. Several left planning work together.
The magic wasn't the destination. It was the collisions. People who'd never cross paths in normal life, suddenly creating together. That's when we knew we'd found something.
“The most interesting conversations happen in cars. People are automatically in retrospection mode—so much themselves.”
Solo travel can be lonely.
Group tours feel forced.
We built something in between.
2,400+
Travelers since 2014
50+
Collaborations born on trips
85%
Return for another experience
The Evolution
From road trips to a global community
2014
RTX — Roadtrip Experience
The original format. Creators packed into vehicles, driving through remote landscapes—Spiti, Vietnam, Sri Lanka. No itineraries, just experiential maps and room for spontaneity.
2016
BHX — Beach House Experience
For entrepreneurs seeking “brain vacations.” Laid-back conversations, exchanging perspectives, growing businesses through connection. Less movement, more depth.
2020
F of X — Forest Festival
A carnival-meets-forest-retreat in Jim Corbett. Artists and content creators jamming together for 4 days. Workshops, performances, collaborations under the trees.
2024
ExCo — The Experience Co.
ExCo now runs these formats under one roof. Different destinations and different reasons to come, with the same obsession underneath: who is in the room and what becomes possible when they meet.
The Philosophy
“Enable, don't execute.”
We don't script experiences. We curate the people, create the space, and let magic happen. When a filmmaker needs candles for a spontaneous music video shoot at 2am, we source them. Responding to what the artist needs is the point.
Our selection process cares more about who you are than your credentials. We receive hundreds of applications and ask questions like “What does your dream project look like?” to understand patterns, passions, and whether you'll add to the collective energy.
Done well, the group becomes part of the reason the edition works.
Collisions That Mattered
What happens when the right people meet
100 Days in Europe
Deepak Ramola met photographer Vibhor Yadav on an RTX trip. Together, they spent 100 days documenting Syrian refugee children across Europe—a project neither imagined alone.
RTX Vietnam, 2016
Project 72 Hours
Amelie from Paris returned to Kohima after her RTX experience to launch a beautification project with local artists. What started as a trip became a cross-cultural art initiative.
RTX Northeast, 2017
A Graphic Novel
Biebe Natso connected with an illustrator during a trip and together created a graphic novel about street art in Nagaland—preserving stories that might otherwise be lost.
RTX Nagaland, 2018
50+ documented collaborations. Four soundtracks. Two giant murals. Three documentaries. 500+ photo projects. And countless friendships we'll never fully count.
Founder
Jaytirth Ahya
The Curator
“I didn't want to meet interesting people over coffee. I wanted to work with them.”
Jay started at a startup funding firm in Bengaluru. The people around him were building interesting things, but networking events kept reducing them to job titles. He wanted to know what would happen if they travelled together long enough to stop pitching.
That question became RTX, then BHX, then F of X. ExCo is what happened after a decade of learning how to put the right people in the same room and give them something worth doing together.
Jay is a photographer, writer, and experience designer. Taking people away is how he combines all three. He cares less about how many countries ExCo covers than what people make together after they come home.
Come back as a
different person|
Come back with new names in your phone, a clearer view of the work, and people who understand why it matters to you.