Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for The Dordogne 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 Central European Time (UTC+1).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides outsourced hotel revenue management for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in The Dordogne, France, one to one, remotely and in Central European Time (UTC+1). In The Dordogne, I price July to August as the peak and November to March 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 The Dordogne
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Central European 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 The Dordogne: Sarlat and the castles of the Dordogne valley; Lascaux and the prehistoric caves of the Vézère; Canoeing and village markets; British second-home and gîte tradition. Guests I price for: British, Dutch and French families on weekly gîte and villa stays with pools. Where I start: Saturday-to-Saturday summer weeks, pool premiums and shoulder floors.
For hotels and chambres d'hôtes in the Dordogne I work on short-season pricing, tour groups and couples' stays in the shoulders, using lessons from my time running revenue in larger hotels where each guest type needed its own rules and timing.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in The Dordogne.
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.
Hotels in the Dordogne live on a season that starts at Easter, peaks in July and August and leans on couples in June and September. Coach tours heading for Lascaux and the castles fill midweek nights in spring and autumn, while families want two or three nights between gîte weeks. I manage group allocations, set stay rules for summer and make sure dinner and half-board revenue are counted alongside the room.
In my first week I separate last year's business into coach groups, couples and families, so I can see which segment truly filled June and September.
Truffle markets and Christmas bring a few visitors, but demand is thin. I keep low floors, accept short stays and use the season for upkeep and next summer's pricing.
Easter, the May bridges and walking groups wake the valley. I price long weekends well and keep weekly rates moderate to tempt early-season families.
The busiest part, with Sarlat's market and the castles of the valley. I price highest here and expect full weeks through the summer.
My full The Dordogne calendar, areas, pricing moves and the mistakes I fix are on the revenue management consultant page for The Dordogne.
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. Prices below are for a hotel of up to 20 rooms; larger hotels move up the size bands on the hotel plans page. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hotel Pricing Strategy Setup | One-time, done first: market, comp set, room types and rates turned into your strategy | From $750 |
| Core | Managed pricing, run for you every day | From $650/mo |
| Plus | Pricing plus OTA, channel and segment optimization | From $900/mo |
| Pro | Full revenue management with forecasting and a monthly strategy call | From $1,150/mo |
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 The Dordogne: July and August, with June and September strong for couples. June: Couples and retirees come for markets, canoeing and quiet castles. I offer three or four-night stays at good rates and avoid discounts that would undersell the month. July to August: Families fill the gîtes. I hold Saturday changeovers, price the weeks of French and Dutch holiday overlap highest and watch bookings week by week. 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 the property is classified and whether the taxe de séjour is collected correctly on every channel, including Gîtes de France and Abritel, which many owners forget.
Offer 3 and 4-night couple stays in June and September. Next: watch Dutch and Belgian school holidays as well as French ones. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a The Dordogne 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 The Dordogne: November to March. November to March: Truffle markets and Christmas bring a few visitors, but demand is thin. I keep low floors, accept short stays and use the season for upkeep and next summer's pricing. April to May: Easter, the May bridges and walking groups wake the valley. I price long weekends well and keep weekly rates moderate to tempt early-season families.
Pools not priced as a feature and winter priced as if summer guests might still turn up. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in The Dordogne, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in The Dordogne, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. The Dordogne sells mostly through Booking.com, Airbnb, Abritel/Vrbo and Gîtes de France. April to May: Easter, the May bridges and walking groups wake the valley. I price long weekends well and keep weekly rates moderate to tempt early-season families.
Sarlat and the Périgord Noir: The busiest part, with Sarlat's market and the castles of the valley. I price highest here and expect full weeks through the summer. Vézère valley and Bergerac and the Périgord Pourpre 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.
British second-home and gîte tradition, Sarlat and the castles of the Dordogne valley and Lascaux and the prehistoric caves of the Vézère are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in The Dordogne. September to October: Warm days, wine harvest around Bergerac and walnut season attract couples. I keep weekly rates firm in September and ease in October with short breaks.
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 The Dordogne and work remotely in Central European Time (UTC+1). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: price a heated or large pool as its own premium.
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 The Dordogne I would start from June: Couples and retirees come for markets, canoeing and quiet castles. I offer three or four-night stays at good rates and avoid discounts that would undersell the month. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in The Dordogne.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in The Dordogne is delivered remotely and scheduled in Central European Time (UTC+1), and 100+ properties in and around The Dordogne have been optimized, including in areas such as Vézère valley. 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 The Dordogne.
The other services I offer in The Dordogne, 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 The Dordogne, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside The Dordogne, 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 The Dordogne and what you need. I reply in Central European Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
