Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Calgary 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 Mountain Time (UTC-7).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides outsourced hotel revenue management for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Calgary, Canada, one to one, remotely and in Mountain Time (UTC-7). In Calgary, I price Stampede and July to August as the peak and April to May and October to mid-December 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 Calgary
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Mountain 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 Calgary: Calgary Stampede in July; Banff, Lake Louise and Sunshine ski resorts; Summer national-park tourism; Energy-sector business travel. Guests I price for: International summer travellers on 3 to 5 night stays, ski groups in winter, corporate guests in Calgary. Where I start: Stampede premiums, Rockies dual-season pricing, and compliant strategies under Banff and Canmore tourist-home rules.
Having run revenue for five-star hotels, I help Bow Valley lodges and Calgary properties set rate fences for Stampede and the summer park peak, separate group and wholesale allocations from transient demand, and pick a comp set that reflects whether guests come for the mountains or for business.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Calgary.
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.
“Calgary, Banff and Canmore combine the Calgary Stampede, Rockies summer tourism and ski season. Banff and Canmore restrict tourist homes to specific zones, so eligible homes are valuable. Calgary itself has energy-sector business travel. Banff and Canmore book months ahead for summer, while Calgary books closer in for business. I open the mountain calendar early and keep city pricing flexible.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
In Banff and Canmore I protect the Christmas and Family Day weeks with longer minimums, then let midweek ski nights in January flex a little to catch Sunshine and Lake Louise groups.
Snow is going and the trails are not open yet, so I shorten stays to two nights and court Calgary weekenders instead of waiting for international summer traffic.
Rates climb steadily as the parks open; I keep early-summer pricing slightly below the July peak so the calendar starts filling before the highway gets busy.
The ten days of Stampede get their own price block in Calgary, and the mountain towns hold full summer rates with three-night minimums because demand there runs well past the event.
Larch season and quieter trails still sell in the Rockies, so I keep weekends near summer levels and only soften weeknights once school is back.
Calgary weekdays lean on energy-sector business travel, while Banff and Canmore get two-night stays and modest weekday offers until the ski hills open.
Price Calgary Stampede as the top Calgary band.
Price Rockies summer and ski season for Banff and Canmore.
Confirm tourist-home zoning in Banff and Canmore.
Set weekday business rates in Calgary.
Lower shoulder floors.
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 Calgary: July to August (Calgary Stampede and Rockies summer) and mid-December to March ski season. Mid-December to March: In Banff and Canmore I protect the Christmas and Family Day weeks with longer minimums, then let midweek ski nights in January flex a little to catch Sunshine and Lake Louise groups. Stampede and July to August: The ten days of Stampede get their own price block in Calgary, and the mountain towns hold full summer rates with three-night minimums because demand there runs well past the event. 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. How far the listing is from the Stampede grounds or a C-Train station for Calgary units, since guests during the event search by transit and walking time before price.
Confirm tourist-home zoning in Banff and Canmore. Next: lower shoulder floors. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Calgary 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 Calgary: April to May and October to November. October to mid-December: Calgary weekdays lean on energy-sector business travel, while Banff and Canmore get two-night stays and modest weekday offers until the ski hills open. April to May: Snow is going and the trails are not open yet, so I shorten stays to two nights and court Calgary weekenders instead of waiting for international summer traffic.
Mountain towns priced like Calgary and zoning ignored. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Calgary, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in Calgary, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Calgary sells mostly through Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo. Mid-December to March: In Banff and Canmore I protect the Christmas and Family Day weeks with longer minimums, then let midweek ski nights in January flex a little to catch Sunshine and Lake Louise groups.
Beltline and Victoria Park, Calgary: Closest to the Stampede grounds and the Saddledome, so I price these units hardest during Stampede and Flames home dates and keep corporate weekday rates the rest of the year. Canmore town centre and Banff townsite 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.
Energy-sector business travel, Calgary Stampede in July and Banff, Lake Louise and Sunshine ski resorts are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Calgary. Stampede and July to August: The ten days of Stampede get their own price block in Calgary, and the mountain towns hold full summer rates with three-night minimums because demand there runs well past the event.
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 Calgary and work remotely in Mountain Time (UTC-7). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: price Rockies summer and ski season for Banff and Canmore.
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 Calgary I would start from mid-December to March: In Banff and Canmore I protect the Christmas and Family Day weeks with longer minimums, then let midweek ski nights in January flex a little to catch Sunshine and Lake Louise groups. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Calgary.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in Calgary is delivered remotely and scheduled in Mountain Time (UTC-7), and 100+ properties in and around Calgary have been optimized, including in areas such as Canmore town centre. 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 Calgary.
The other services I offer in Calgary, 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 Calgary, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside Calgary, 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 Calgary and what you need. I reply in Mountain Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
