Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Austin hotels, resorts and serviced apartments: daily rates, restrictions, forecasting and distribution, with a monthly report you can check. Plans start from $650 a month by hotel size, month to month, remote in Central Time (UTC-6).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides outsourced hotel revenue management 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 plans are priced monthly by hotel size, with Core from $650 a month, Plus adding channel and segment optimization and Pro adding forecasting and a monthly strategy call. They run month to month and are never a percentage of revenue.
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100+
Properties optimized in and around Austin
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Central Time
Sessions scheduled in your local time
Outsourced hotel revenue management means I do the job of the revenue manager for you: I watch the comp set and pace every day, move rates and restrictions, manage the OTAs, forecast demand and report each month. You keep control of the hotel and see every decision.
What I plan around in Austin: South by Southwest in March; Austin City Limits festival in October; Formula 1 United States Grand Prix; Longhorns football and the tech corporate calendar. Guests I price for: Event travellers, bachelor and bachelorette groups, and business travellers, with short 2 to 3 night stays and heavy weekend compression. Where I start: 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.
From my five-star hotel career I help Austin hotels balance festival, corporate tech and university demand, fence SXSW, ACL and Formula 1 with proper stay controls and deposits, and build summer and January strategies so the property earns steadily between events.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Austin.
I monitor your comp set and booking pace every day and move rates, rate plans and restrictions as demand shifts, room type by room type.
I manage the channel mix, parity and promotions together across Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, Google and your own site, so cost of sale does not eat the gain.
On the higher plans I forecast demand by month and segment, build the annual budget and keep a 12-month pricing calendar tied to the market's real dates.
You get a monthly performance summary, a full ADR, occupancy and RevPAR report on Plus and Pro, and on Pro a monthly strategy call and a quarterly review.
“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.
No revenue manager
The role left or was never hired, and rooms are priced between other duties.
Results have plateaued
RevPAR has stopped moving while the comp set keeps learning.
More than one property
You want one consistent method across a small group without building a department.
An owner or asset manager
You want decisions made by a specialist and reported in numbers you can check.
Room count, room types, channels and the systems you use. I confirm the plan level and the monthly price for your size.
I study your market, comp set and current rates, set up the strategy and connect your PMS or channel manager and pricing tool.
I adjust rates, restrictions and promotions as demand moves, and manage your OTAs on Plus and Pro.
Step 4
You get the report against budget and last year, and on Pro we meet monthly, so nothing I do is hidden.
Priced monthly by your hotel's size, not per room. Core, Plus and Pro, month to month, never a percentage of revenue. Hotels of 200 or more rooms, luxury properties and groups are quoted individually.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Core, up to 20 rooms | Managed pricing, run for you every day | From $650/mo |
| Plus | Pricing plus OTA, channel and segment optimization | By hotel size |
| Pro | Full revenue management with forecasting and a monthly strategy call | By hotel size |
Real feedback from PriceLabs pricing strategy sessions with Alaa.
Alaa is a consummate professional! Patient, thorough, efficient and effective in communicating. He not only made savvy adjustments to my dynamic pricing strategy, but also helped me to understand the reasoning behind his methods, granting me a better understanding of the PriceLabs platform. Strong work!
Airbnb host
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.
Property manager
Alaa helped me optimize my PriceLabs settings for my Airbnb listing and was very helpful and patient with answering any questions I had. He was also able to clearly explain why he made the changes he made, and it was obvious that he had a lot of experience in this field. I will definitely be back!
Airbnb host
Busiest in Austin: March (SXSW), October (ACL and Formula 1) and University of Texas home-game weekends. 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. April to June: 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. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i raise floors and tighten minimum stays ahead of these windows and review pace every week, so the strongest dates never sell early at a shoulder rate.
For outsourced hotel revenue management, that is the first thing I check before taking on the pricing, because everything else sits on top of 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.
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. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Austin property usually leaks the most.
For outsourced hotel revenue management, in the quiet months my job is to protect the floor, close gaps with length-of-stay and last-minute rules, and keep the property visible on every channel. Quietest in Austin: Late July to August heat and the first half of January. January to February: After New Year the city is quiet, so I lower floors, keep weekend minimums short and invite monthly stays from relocations and tech interns. 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.
The same minimum stay on event weekends and ordinary weekends, which either blocks bookings or undersells the events and no party and group rules in the listing, which invites bookings that cost more in damage than they earn. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Austin, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in Austin, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Austin sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. January to February: After New Year the city is quiet, so I lower floors, keep weekend minimums short and invite monthly stays from relocations and tech interns.
East Austin: Close to bars, food trucks and downtown; I price group homes by capacity and push hardest during SXSW, ACL and bachelorette weekends. South Congress and Travis Heights and Lake Travis and the Hill Country get their own treatment. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i set rates, comp sets and restrictions per area and per room or listing type, not as one citywide number.
Longhorns football and the tech corporate calendar, South by Southwest in March and Austin City Limits festival in October are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Austin. 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.
For outsourced hotel revenue management, you get one experienced person who knows your numbers, with a small team and a tool stack behind me, and no account-manager layer in between. 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: set group-home pricing by guest capacity for East Austin and South Congress properties, since bachelor and bachelorette groups compare per-person cost.
Hotel revenue management plans are priced monthly by hotel size, with Core from $650 a month, Plus adding channel and segment optimization and Pro adding forecasting and a monthly strategy call. They run month to month and are never a percentage of revenue. The scope of outsourced hotel revenue management is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in Austin I would start from April to June: 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. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Austin.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager 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 South Congress and Travis Heights. I work in your time zone, report monthly, and the engagement runs month to month with no long-term lock-in. 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 outsourced revenue management.
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.
