An independent look at your hotel's revenue, and a plan you can run.I audit how your Austin hotel prices, restricts, distributes and forecasts its rooms, then give you a ranked roadmap, a 12-month pricing calendar and training for your team. Fixed scope, fixed price, remote in Central Time (UTC-6), usually four to eight weeks.
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides hotel revenue management consulting for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Austin, United States, one to one, remotely and in Central Time (UTC-6). In Austin, I price March and September to November as the peak and January to February and July to August as the quiet time, and I build the work around that calendar. Hotel revenue management consulting is a fixed-scope, fixed-price engagement quoted after a free discovery call, based on room count, room types, channels and scope. An audit with a strategy roadmap is a single project fee, usually delivered in four to eight weeks.
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Hotel revenue management consulting is an independent review followed by a plan. I look at 12 to 24 months of your own data, shop your comp set, and find where rates, restrictions or channels are costing you money. Unlike outsourcing, I do not make your daily decisions; your team does, with a better plan.
This is my view of Austin. Austin is an events market with very long quiet stretches in between. SXSW, ACL and the Formula 1 weekend can earn what a normal month earns, but the real test of a pricing setup here is late summer and early January, when the heat or the holidays empty the city. I look at both halves: events priced early and confidently, and weekday floors that stop the calendar from sitting empty.
For Austin owners I check the licence first, then build the year around the event calendar and the quiet months. The plan sets event blocks for SXSW, ACL and Formula 1, group rules for large homes, and floors that keep summer and January from sitting empty.
The service in general is described on my hotel revenue management consulting page; this page covers how I apply it in Austin.
A review of the last 12 to 24 months: pricing decisions, rate architecture, restrictions, channel mix and cost, comp-set position, pace and the systems behind them, with every gap ranked by value.
Base rates and floors per room type, BAR levels tied to occupancy and pace, seasonal and event calendars and restrictions, written as a 12-month calendar your team can run.
Which channels to sell on, at what rate and with which promotions, so the mix protects margin: OTAs, corporate, wholesale, metasearch and direct.
A demand forecast, an annual budget, weekly pace reports and a workshop for your team, plus honest advice on revenue systems before you sign for one.
“Austin is an events market with very long quiet stretches in between. SXSW, ACL and the Formula 1 weekend can earn what a normal month earns, but the real test of a pricing setup here is late summer and early January, when the heat or the holidays empty the city. I look at both halves: events priced early and confidently, and weekday floors that stop the calendar from sitting empty.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
After New Year the city is quiet, so I lower floors, keep weekend minimums short and invite monthly stays from relocations and tech interns.
SXSW is priced as a block with its own minimum, and Rodeo Austin adds some weekend demand, while dates outside the festival stay near spring rates.
Spring weddings, graduations at UT and bachelorette weekends keep Austin busy, so I hold weekend rates firm and price graduation as its own short peak.
Heat empties the city, so I lower weekday floors, allow single nights and keep pool homes priced for their feature rather than cutting them.
ACL weekends, Formula 1 at the Circuit of the Americas and Longhorns home games drive autumn, so I price each as an event and protect weekends between them.
Holiday parties and visiting families give a few busy weekends, then the city empties, so I price those weekends modestly and keep late December flexible.
Price SXSW, both ACL weekends and Formula 1 as named events with their own rates and 3-night minimums, loaded at least 6 months ahead.
Set group-home pricing by guest capacity for East Austin and South Congress properties, since bachelor and bachelorette groups compare per-person cost.
Add Longhorns home-game Saturdays to the calendar each autumn as smaller, 2-night events.
Use weekday floors and 1-night stays from Sunday to Thursday outside events to catch tech and corporate travel.
Build late July and August as its own low season with lower floors and pool-home premiums kept intact.
Performance has flattened
RevPAR is stuck while the market around you moves on.
Opening, renovating or rebranding
A new positioning needs a pricing and distribution strategy built from scratch.
An owner wants a second opinion
You need the operator's numbers checked by someone outside the hotel.
You have a team but want a better plan
Someone prices today and wants an audit, a calendar and training.
Thirty minutes on your property, your market and where you think revenue leaks. I scope the work and confirm the price before starting.
With read-only access to your PMS, channel manager and extranets I analyse the data, shop your comp set and talk to whoever sets rates today.
A written report and a working session: the gaps ranked by value, the strategy to close them and a 12-month calendar.
Step 4
I can set the strategy up in your systems, train your team and check in monthly, or run it for you as outsourced management.
Every engagement is fixed-scope and fixed-price. After a free discovery call you get the scope and the price in writing before any work starts. Training days and monthly check-ins are quoted separately.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Audit and roadmap | Audit, ranked gap report, strategy and 12-month calendar | Fixed fee, quoted |
| Implementation support | Setup in your systems and team training | Quoted |
| Monthly check-ins | Optional review sessions after delivery | Quoted |
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Alaa was fantastic, going through each of the properties I had and gave great advice and actioned a great game plan. Would highly recommend for anyone looking to enhance their pricing strategy on PriceLabs. Alaa's experience goes beyond this which makes it very beneficial to have this holistic approach.
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For hotel revenue management consulting, that is where my audit begins, because a finding here changes every recommendation after it. Whether event blocks for SXSW, ACL and Formula 1 were loaded months ahead with matching minimums, since late setup lets groups book at ordinary prices.
Busiest in Austin: March (SXSW), October (ACL and Formula 1) and University of Texas home-game weekends. September to November: ACL weekends, Formula 1 at the Circuit of the Americas and Longhorns home games drive autumn, so I price each as an event and protect weekends between them. March: SXSW is priced as a block with its own minimum, and Rodeo Austin adds some weekend demand, while dates outside the festival stay near spring rates. For hotel revenue management consulting, my audit tests whether your current rates and restrictions capture these windows, and the 12-month calendar I hand over sets them in advance.
Event-week rates set months ahead, group-size pricing for East Austin and South Congress homes, and weekday floor prices that keep occupancy healthy between events. For hotel revenue management consulting, I check every recommendation against the Austin calendar before I make it. July to August: Heat empties the city, so I lower weekday floors, allow single nights and keep pool homes priced for their feature rather than cutting them.
SXSW, ACL and the Formula 1 weekend can earn what a normal month earns, but the real test of a pricing setup here is late summer and early January, when the heat or the holidays empty the city. I look at both halves: events priced early and confidently, and weekday floors that stop the calendar from sitting empty. That is the view I bring to hotel revenue management consulting in Austin.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In Austin the first gains from hotel revenue management consulting usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: set group-home pricing by guest capacity for East Austin and South Congress properties, since bachelor and bachelorette groups compare per-person cost. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
Austin sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. March: SXSW is priced as a block with its own minimum, and Rodeo Austin adds some weekend demand, while dates outside the festival stay near spring rates. For hotel revenue management consulting in Austin, my distribution review covers each channel's cost, contribution and rate position, then recommends a mix.
For hotel revenue management consulting, i begin with 12 to 24 months of your own data, so the first findings are about your property in Austin, not the city. Add Longhorns home-game Saturdays to the calendar each autumn as smaller, 2-night events. Next: build late July and August as its own low season with lower floors and pool-home premiums kept intact.
Lake Travis and the Hill Country: Lake homes for families and groups; I price summer weekends and holidays highest and use weekly stays for families escaping the city heat. East Austin and South Congress and Travis Heights get their own treatment. For hotel revenue management consulting, i review your comp set and rate position for your own part of Austin, not the market average.
For hotel revenue management consulting, consulting gives you an independent view and a plan your own team can run, without handing the daily decisions to anyone. I have optimized 100+ properties in and around Austin and work remotely in Central Time (UTC-6). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: add Longhorns home-game Saturdays to the calendar each autumn as smaller, 2-night events.
Hotel revenue management consulting is a fixed-scope, fixed-price engagement quoted after a free discovery call, based on room count, room types, channels and scope. An audit with a strategy roadmap is a single project fee, usually delivered in four to eight weeks. The scope of hotel revenue management consulting is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in Austin I would start from September to November: ACL weekends, Formula 1 at the Circuit of the Americas and Longhorns home games drive autumn, so I price each as an event and protect weekends between them. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Austin.
Yes. Hotel Revenue Management Consultant in Austin is delivered remotely and scheduled in Central Time (UTC-6), and 100+ properties in and around Austin have been optimized, including in areas such as Lake Travis and the Hill Country. The engagement is remote and fixed-scope, with calls in your time zone and a written report your team can run. Start in the chat or by email and tell me what you run in Austin.
The other services I offer in Austin, for hotels and for Airbnb and short-term rentals. Each has its own page for this market.
Back to the revenue management consultant page for Austin, or read the general page for hotel revenue management consulting.
If you also run properties outside Austin, I work in these markets too, and each page is written for that market's own seasons, areas and rules.
Tell me what you run in Austin and what you need. I reply in Central Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
