Win placement on Expedia Group, across Hotels.com and Orbitz too.I optimize your Partner Central setup once so Expedia, Hotels.com, Orbitz and the other group brands all benefit. I work with hotels, resorts and serviced apartments 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 Expedia optimization for hotels for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments 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. Expedia 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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100+
Properties optimized in and around Cartagena
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Colombia Time
Sessions scheduled in your local time
Expedia optimization for hotels is the work I do to make a property rank, convert and price correctly on Expedia. I optimize your Partner Central setup once so Expedia, Hotels.com, Orbitz and the other group brands all benefit.
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. From my years in five-star hotels I help Cartagena boutique hotels in colonial houses handle wedding blocks, fence leisure packages from direct room rates and decide how much inventory to release to groups during the December peak, when individual guests usually pay more.
The service in general is described on my expedia optimization page; this page covers how I apply it in Cartagena.
Expedia scores completeness and quality. I bring the content score up, write room descriptions that sell and align facts with your other channels.
I order the gallery for the search card and the property page, and flag the shots that are losing you clicks.
Expedia rewards competitive, well-structured rates. I set rate plans, member-only pricing and promotions, and judge whether Accelerator or TravelAds earns its cost.
Guest scores and response behaviour affect placement. I set up review requests and responses, and fix the operational causes behind low scores.
“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.
Expedia sells your inventory across several brands, and most of them read the same Partner Central data. That is why I do the setup carefully once: a complete profile and a sound rate structure improve placement across the group, and the promotions you choose decide how much of that visibility you pay for.
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 Expedia listing
You have just connected Expedia 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 Expedia.
Commission without much return
You pay Expedia commission and its share of bookings is small next to your other channels.
A portfolio with uneven quality
Some listings are polished on Expedia and others were never finished, and nobody owns the standard.
Send me the Expedia listing or property links and your channel manager. I check how the property ranks and reads today before we speak.
A scorecard for Expedia: content, photos, rates and promotions, policies and reviews, with every fix ranked by impact.
I make the changes live on Zoom in your Expedia 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 Expedia and adjust what the numbers say to adjust.
I quote Expedia 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 | Expedia optimization for one property | Quoted |
| Several properties | One scope and one price for a group on Expedia | 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 Expedia optimization for hotels in Cartagena, i optimize Expedia 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 Expedia optimization for hotels, on Expedia, I line up promotions, rate plans and content with these windows so visibility peaks when demand does.
For Expedia optimization for hotels, i write content and photo order on Expedia 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.
San Diego: The quieter, residential side of the Walled City with boutique houses; I price above Getsemaní and sell calm to couples and families. Bocagrande and Castillogrande and Manga get their own treatment. For Expedia optimization for hotels, i write location content, photos and amenity highlights on Expedia around the specific part of Cartagena the property is in.
For Expedia optimization for hotels, the first changes on Expedia are content completeness and the cover photo, because those decide whether a Cartagena traveler clicks. Add the Hay Festival and wedding weekends. Next: keep RNT registration current.
How noise from plazas and nightlife near the property is disclosed, because Getsemaní and parts of the Walled City are loud late into the night. For Expedia optimization for hotels, i check this on Expedia first, because it decides whether the listing is allowed to rank at all.
For Expedia optimization for hotels in Cartagena, this is how I would approach it. From my years in five-star hotels I help Cartagena boutique hotels in colonial houses handle wedding blocks, fence leisure packages from direct room rates and decide how much inventory to release to groups during the December peak, when individual guests usually pay more. We start in the chat, and I confirm the scope and the price before any work begins.
For Expedia optimization for hotels, 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 Walled City and Getsemaní separately.
Expedia optimization is quoted per property after a short chat, because the scope depends on the number of properties and room types. The scope of Expedia optimization for hotels 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. Expedia Optimization Expert for Hotels 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 San Diego. I implement it live on Zoom in your Expedia 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 Expedia optimization for hotels usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: keep RNT registration current. 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 expedia 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.
