Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Charlotte 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 Charlotte, United States, one to one, remotely and in Eastern Time (UTC-5). In Charlotte, I price May as the peak and January to February 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 Charlotte
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 Charlotte: NASCAR at Charlotte Motor Speedway; Panthers and Hornets seasons; Banking and corporate travel; US National Whitewater Center. Guests I price for: Corporate travellers midweek, race and game-day groups at weekends. Where I start: Race-week premiums, corporate rate cards, and weekend event pricing.
For Charlotte hotels, my five-star chain background helps me manage corporate negotiated rates with the banks, convention groups, race and golf weekends, and leisure guests, with rate fences that keep event nights from selling too early at corporate rates while the rest of the week stays competitive.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Charlotte.
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.
“Charlotte is a banking city first. Corporate travel fills weekdays, and conventions add more. Weekends come from Panthers games, NASCAR race weeks and outdoor visitors to the Whitewater Center. The Coca-Cola 600 over Memorial Day weekend is the standout. I build strong corporate weekday pricing and treat race and game weekends as events.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Corporate weekdays carry the season, so I protect weekday rates near Uptown and South End and lower weekend floors for leisure visitors.
Spring conventions and warmer weekends at the Whitewater Center bring more guests, so I firm up Saturdays and keep weekday rates aimed at business travel.
The Quail Hollow golf tournament and the Memorial Day race weekend make May the city's strongest month, so I price each event individually and open them early.
Heat slows leisure, so I keep weekday corporate rates firm, add weekly offers for interns and relocations, and ease weekend floors.
Football, the autumn race and the December college championship games fill weekends, so I price each date by the schedule and keep holiday weeks separate.
Set weekday corporate rates for homes near Uptown and South End.
Price Coca-Cola 600 weekend and the October race as event premiums.
Add Panthers home games as date premiums.
Offer monthly rates for corporate projects and relocations.
Lower January and February weekend 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 Charlotte: Panthers season, NASCAR race weeks in May and October, and spring and autumn conventions. May: The Quail Hollow golf tournament and the Memorial Day race weekend make May the city's strongest month, so I price each event individually and open them early. September to December: Football, the autumn race and the December college championship games fill weekends, so I price each date by the schedule and keep holiday weeks separate. 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 offers clean invoices and work-ready features, since banking and corporate guests need both before they consider the rate.
Add Panthers home games as date premiums. Next: lower January and February weekend floors. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Charlotte 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 Charlotte: January to February. January to February: Corporate weekdays carry the season, so I protect weekday rates near Uptown and South End and lower weekend floors for leisure visitors. March to April: Spring conventions and warmer weekends at the Whitewater Center bring more guests, so I firm up Saturdays and keep weekday rates aimed at business travel.
Race weekends priced like ordinary holiday weekends and no monthly option for relocations. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Charlotte, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in Charlotte, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Charlotte sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. March to April: Spring conventions and warmer weekends at the Whitewater Center bring more guests, so I firm up Saturdays and keep weekday rates aimed at business travel.
South End: Breweries, restaurants and the light rail; I price weekdays for corporate guests and weekends for leisure groups and events. NoDa and Plaza Midwood and Concord near the speedway 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.
US National Whitewater Center, NASCAR at Charlotte Motor Speedway and Panthers and Hornets seasons are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Charlotte. September to December: Football, the autumn race and the December college championship games fill weekends, so I price each date by the schedule and keep holiday weeks separate.
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 Charlotte and work remotely in Eastern Time (UTC-5). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: price Coca-Cola 600 weekend and the October race as event premiums.
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 Charlotte I would start from May: The Quail Hollow golf tournament and the Memorial Day race weekend make May the city's strongest month, so I price each event individually and open them early. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Charlotte.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in Charlotte is delivered remotely and scheduled in Eastern Time (UTC-5), and 100+ properties in and around Charlotte have been optimized, including in areas such as NoDa and Plaza Midwood. 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 Charlotte.
The other services I offer in Charlotte, 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 Charlotte, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside Charlotte, 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 Charlotte and what you need. I reply in Eastern Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
