Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Boston 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 Eastern Time (UTC-5).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides outsourced hotel revenue management for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Boston, United States, one to one, remotely and in Eastern Time (UTC-5). In Boston, I price April, May to June and September to October as the peak and January to March 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 Boston
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Eastern 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 Boston: Boston Marathon; Harvard, MIT and 30-plus college commencements and move-ins; Red Sox season at Fenway; Biotech and medical conferences. Guests I price for: Parents and academics on 2 to 4 night stays in Cambridge, Back Bay and the South End, plus corporate and medical travellers. Where I start: Commencement and marathon premiums set months ahead, university-calendar seasonality, and compliant strategies under Boston's owner-occupancy rules.
For Boston hotels, my five-star chain background helps me balance corporate accounts in biotech and medicine, citywide conventions, university demand and leisure weekends, with rate fences and group blocks set well ahead of graduation and marathon dates, so the best nights are not sold early to the lowest-paying segment.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Boston.
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.
“Boston follows the academic calendar as much as the weather. Commencement weekends, move-in and move-out, the Marathon and autumn foliage create very specific peaks that are easy to predict and easy to underprice if you only look at months. The city's rules also restrict who can host, so I confirm eligibility before building any strategy around short stays.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Snow and short days thin leisure demand, so I lean on hospital and visiting scholar stays, offer weekly rates and keep weekends realistic.
Marathon weekend tops the month, so I price it individually and treat Patriots' Day school holiday week as a smaller peak for families.
Graduation season overlaps across many campuses, so I price each weekend by the commencements near the home and keep longer minimums on the busiest dates.
Tourists, summer programmes and Red Sox games fill the city, so I hold weekend rates firm and add weekly offers for summer interns.
Move-in, parents weekends, foliage and the Head of the Charles Regatta make this the busiest autumn stretch, so I price each weekend on its own.
Thanksgiving and holiday visits create a few strong weekends, so I price those and lower midweek floors for the rest of the season.
List every major university commencement date near the property and price each weekend individually, months ahead.
Set Marathon Monday weekend as a top band with a 3-night minimum for homes near the route and Back Bay.
Add September move-in weekends and October foliage weekends as separate premiums rather than one autumn uplift.
Use weekday rates aimed at medical and biotech travel in the Longwood and Kendall Square areas.
In January to March, lower floors and offer monthly rates for visiting academics and hospital stays.
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 Boston: May to October, with Marathon Monday in April, university commencements in May, autumn foliage and move-in weekends in September. April: Marathon weekend tops the month, so I price it individually and treat Patriots' Day school holiday week as a smaller peak for families. May to June: Graduation season overlaps across many campuses, so I price each weekend by the commencements near the home and keep longer minimums on the busiest dates. 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 the listing shows a valid registration number and fits the building's condo bylaws, since a missing number can remove a listing at the worst moment.
Add September move-in weekends and October foliage weekends as separate premiums rather than one autumn uplift. Next: in January to March, lower floors and offer monthly rates for visiting academics and hospital stays. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Boston 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 Boston: January to March. November to December: Thanksgiving and holiday visits create a few strong weekends, so I price those and lower midweek floors for the rest of the season. January to March: Snow and short days thin leisure demand, so I lean on hospital and visiting scholar stays, offer weekly rates and keep weekends realistic.
One autumn price for September to November instead of pricing move-in and foliage weekends and short stays offered on units that do not meet the city's host eligibility rules. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Boston, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in Boston, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Boston sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. January to March: Snow and short days thin leisure demand, so I lean on hospital and visiting scholar stays, offer weekly rates and keep weekends realistic.
Cambridge: Close to Harvard and MIT, with its own city rules; I price around both universities' calendars and corporate weekdays near Kendall Square. Back Bay and the South End and Allston and Brighton 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.
Biotech and medical conferences, Boston Marathon and Harvard, MIT and 30-plus college commencements and move-ins are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Boston. July to August: Tourists, summer programmes and Red Sox games fill the city, so I hold weekend rates firm and add weekly offers for summer interns.
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 Boston and work remotely in Eastern Time (UTC-5). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: set Marathon Monday weekend as a top band with a 3-night minimum for homes near the route and Back Bay.
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 Boston I would start from July to August: Tourists, summer programmes and Red Sox games fill the city, so I hold weekend rates firm and add weekly offers for summer interns. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Boston.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in Boston is delivered remotely and scheduled in Eastern Time (UTC-5), and 100+ properties in and around Boston have been optimized, including in areas such as Back Bay and the South End. 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 Boston.
The other services I offer in Boston, 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 Boston, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside Boston, 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 Boston and what you need. I reply in Eastern Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
