Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Cartagena 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 Colombia Time (UTC-5).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides outsourced hotel revenue management 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. 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 Cartagena
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Colombia 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 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.
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 outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Cartagena.
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.
“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.
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.
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 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 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 a group house shows its real sleeping arrangement bed by bed, since wedding parties compare beds per room before they compare total price.
Add the Hay Festival and wedding weekends. Next: keep RNT registration current. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Cartagena 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 Cartagena: September to October. September to November: 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. May to August: 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.
Groups without rules and unregistered listings. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Cartagena, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in Cartagena, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Cartagena sells mostly through Airbnb and Booking.com. May to August: 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.
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 outsourced hotel revenue management, i set rates, comp sets and restrictions per area and per room or listing type, not as one citywide number.
Rosario Islands day trips, Walled City and Getsemaní tourism and Colombian long weekends are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Cartagena. 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 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 Cartagena and work remotely in Colombia Time (UTC-5). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: price group homes by capacity.
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 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. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager 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 Bocagrande and Castillogrande. 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 Cartagena.
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 outsourced revenue management.
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.
