Rank higher on Airbnb, and turn views into bookings.I rewrite the title and description around how guests search, choose and order photos, and tune amenities and booking settings so Airbnb ranks the listing higher. I work with Airbnb hosts, vacation rental owners and property managers in Cartagena, one to one, remotely and in Colombia Time (UTC-5), and I have optimized 100+ properties in and around the market.
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides Airbnb listing optimization for Airbnb hosts, vacation rental owners and property managers in Cartagena, Colombia, one to one, remotely and in Colombia Time (UTC-5). In Cartagena, I price Mid-December to mid-January as the peak and September to November as the quiet time, and I build the work around that calendar. Airbnb optimization is quoted per property after a short chat, because the scope depends on the number of properties and room types.
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Properties optimized in and around Cartagena
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
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Airbnb listing optimization is the work I do to make a property rank, convert and price correctly on Airbnb. I rewrite the title and description around how guests search, choose and order photos, and tune amenities and booking settings so Airbnb ranks the listing higher.
What I plan around in Cartagena: Walled City and Getsemaní tourism; Colombian long weekends; Wedding and group travel; Rosario Islands day trips. Guests I price for: Colombian and international travellers on 3 to 5 night stays. Where I start: Holiday and long-weekend premiums, group-home pricing, and rainy-season floors.
Cartagena sells mostly through Airbnb and Booking.com. I set up your Airbnb and Booking.com pricing with holiday minimums, festival and Holy Week blocks, puente premiums and a capacity-based rate for group houses. Extra-guest fees, deposits and house rules match on both channels so a group booking never undercuts the plan.
The service in general is described on my airbnb listing optimization page; this page covers how I apply it in Cartagena.
Airbnb reads your title, summary and details to decide which searches you appear in. I research how guests in your market search and write to match.
Guests decide in seconds. I pick the cover that wins the click, order the gallery as a story and caption the features guests care about.
Missing amenities cost filters and strict rules cost conversion. I audit every toggle and set the combination that converts without adding risk.
Ratings, response and acceptance rates and review recency all feed ranking. I set up review requests and reply templates so those signals keep improving.
“Cartagena sells the Walled City, Getsemaní and weekend escapes for Colombians. Holidays, long weekends and weddings drive demand, and the Hay Festival adds January. Group homes are common. RNT registration is required. Groups often book large homes for celebrations, so clear rules, deposits and capacity-based pricing protect both the property and the revenue.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Colombian families and foreign visitors fill the city together, so I set four or five night minimums over Christmas and New Year and open those weeks early at full rate.
The Hay Festival and the music festival bring a cultured crowd in January, then dry weather carries to Semana Santa. I price festival nights and Holy Week as separate blocks.
Mid-year school holidays in June and July bring Colombian families back, so I lift those weeks, keep puentes priced as mini peaks and soften midweek.
Rain and heat thin demand, so I lower floors and allow two night stays, while the Independence celebrations around 11 November get a modest weekend lift.
A listing that ranks but is priced badly wastes the visibility, and a well-priced listing nobody sees earns nothing. I optimize the listing for search and conversion first, then tune the pricing around the traffic it earns.
Price Colombian long weekends and holidays as premiums.
Price group homes by capacity.
Add the Hay Festival and wedding weekends.
Price Walled City and Getsemaní separately.
Keep RNT registration current.
A new Airbnb listing
You have just connected Airbnb and want it to rank and convert from the first weeks, not after months of guessing.
Views but few bookings
Visibility looks fine and conversion does not, which usually means content, photos or rate plans on Airbnb.
Commission without much return
You pay Airbnb commission and its share of bookings is small next to your other channels.
A portfolio with uneven quality
Some listings are polished on Airbnb and others were never finished, and nobody owns the standard.
Send me the Airbnb listing or property links and your channel manager. I check how the property ranks and reads today before we speak.
A scorecard for Airbnb: content, photos, rates and promotions, policies and reviews, with every fix ranked by impact.
I make the changes live on Zoom in your Airbnb account or through your channel manager, and explain each one so you can maintain it.
Step 4
About 30 days later I look at impressions, conversion and booking share on Airbnb and adjust what the numbers say to adjust.
I quote Airbnb optimization per property after a short chat. You get a fixed scope and price before any work starts.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Single property | Airbnb optimization for one property | Quoted |
| Several properties | One scope and one price for a group on Airbnb | Quoted |
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
For Airbnb listing optimization in Cartagena, i optimize Airbnb alongside your other channels and check parity, so added reach never creates a conflict. Cartagena sells mostly through Airbnb and Booking.com. Mid-December to mid-January: Colombian families and foreign visitors fill the city together, so I set four or five night minimums over Christmas and New Year and open those weeks early at full rate.
Busiest in Cartagena: December to January, Holy Week, and long weekends, with Hay Festival in January. Mid-December to mid-January: Colombian families and foreign visitors fill the city together, so I set four or five night minimums over Christmas and New Year and open those weeks early at full rate. Late January to Holy Week: The Hay Festival and the music festival bring a cultured crowd in January, then dry weather carries to Semana Santa. I price festival nights and Holy Week as separate blocks. For Airbnb listing optimization, on Airbnb, I line up promotions, rate plans and content with these windows so visibility peaks when demand does.
For Airbnb listing optimization, i write content and photo order on Airbnb for the guests who actually search for Cartagena. Colombian and international travellers on 3 to 5 night stays. Demand is driven by Colombian long weekends and Wedding and group travel.
Manga: A residential island near the marina and old mansions; I price below the historic centre and court longer and repeat stays. San Diego and Bocagrande and Castillogrande get their own treatment. For Airbnb listing optimization, i write location content, photos and amenity highlights on Airbnb around the specific part of Cartagena the property is in.
For Airbnb listing optimization, the first changes on Airbnb are content completeness and the cover photo, because those decide whether a Cartagena traveler clicks. Price Colombian long weekends and holidays as premiums. Next: add the Hay Festival and wedding weekends.
Whether a group house shows its real sleeping arrangement bed by bed, since wedding parties compare beds per room before they compare total price. For Airbnb listing optimization, i check this on Airbnb first, because it decides whether the listing is allowed to rank at all.
For Airbnb listing optimization in Cartagena, this is how I would approach it. Extra-guest fees, deposits and house rules match on both channels so a group booking never undercuts the plan. com pricing with holiday minimums, festival and Holy Week blocks, puente premiums and a capacity-based rate for group houses. We start in the chat, and I confirm the scope and the price before any work begins.
For Airbnb listing optimization, i price properties for a living, so content, rates and promotions are tuned together and not in isolation. I have optimized 100+ properties in and around Cartagena and work remotely in Colombia Time (UTC-5). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: price group homes by capacity.
Airbnb optimization is quoted per property after a short chat, because the scope depends on the number of properties and room types. The scope of Airbnb listing optimization is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in Cartagena I would start from mid-December to mid-January: Colombian families and foreign visitors fill the city together, so I set four or five night minimums over Christmas and New Year and open those weeks early at full rate. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Cartagena.
Yes. Airbnb Listing Optimization Expert in Cartagena is delivered remotely and scheduled in Colombia Time (UTC-5), and 100+ properties in and around Cartagena have been optimized, including in areas such as Manga. I implement it live on Zoom in your Airbnb extranet or through your channel manager, in your time zone. Start in the chat or by email and tell me what you run in Cartagena.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In Cartagena the first gains from Airbnb listing optimization usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: add the Hay Festival and wedding weekends. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
The other services I offer in Cartagena, 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 Cartagena, or read the general page for airbnb listing optimization.
If you also run properties outside Cartagena, 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 Cartagena and what you need. I reply in Colombia Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
