Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Dubai 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 Gulf Standard Time (UTC+4).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides outsourced hotel revenue management for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, one to one, remotely and in Gulf Standard Time (UTC+4). In Dubai, I price December to January as the peak and June to September 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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1,250+
Properties optimized in and around Dubai
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Gulf Standard 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 Dubai: New Year's Eve fireworks at Burj Khalifa; GITEX, Gulfood and other DWTC exhibitions; Dubai Shopping Festival; Winter sun travel from Europe, the UK and the CIS. Guests I price for: International leisure and business travellers of 3 to 7 nights across Downtown, Marina, JBR and Palm Jumeirah, plus long-stay winter residents. Where I start: DTCM holiday-home pricing, exhibition premiums loaded a year ahead, Eid and Ramadan adjustments, and summer floors with longer minimum stays.
Dubai hotels face fierce competition, mega-events and a fast-growing holiday home sector. From my years in five-star hotel revenue, I help with segmentation, exhibition pricing, group displacement and channel mix, so hotels capture peak demand and protect rate as new supply opens.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Dubai.
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.
“Dubai is one of the few big markets where the regulator actively supports holiday homes, as long as the unit holds its DET permit. That means supply keeps growing, especially in Marina, JBR and Downtown, and pricing has to be sharper every year. The money is in exhibition weeks, New Year's Eve and winter, and in not panicking in summer.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
GITEX, the Dubai Airshow in odd-numbered years and cooler weather lift demand, so I raise weekday rates near DWTC and Business Bay and start loading festive dates.
New Year's Eve, Dubai Shopping Festival and school holidays drive the highest prices, so I set long minimums and keep weekends firm across Downtown and Palm Jumeirah.
Gulfood, Art Dubai and pleasant weather keep the city busy, so I hold rates and prepare Ramadan pricing as the dates approach.
The Dubai World Cup and Eid bring short peaks, but heat rises, so I trim weekday rates and protect weekend and holiday dates.
I lean on GCC families visiting malls and indoor attractions and price the school-holiday weeks a touch above the rest of summer.
Load the DWTC exhibition calendar a year ahead, with GITEX and Gulfood as top weekday bands.
Price New Year's Eve with a 3 to 5-night minimum and a view premium for Burj Khalifa or fireworks views.
Move Eid and Ramadan pricing every year, since the dates shift about 11 days.
Hold summer floors and offer monthly rates instead of cutting nightly prices to the bone.
Price by building and view inside Marina, JBR and Downtown, not by area average.
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 Dubai: November to March, with New Year's Eve, Dubai Shopping Festival, the Dubai World Cup and Ramadan and Eid shifts. October to November: GITEX, the Dubai Airshow in odd-numbered years and cooler weather lift demand, so I raise weekday rates near DWTC and Business Bay and start loading festive dates. December to January: New Year's Eve, Dubai Shopping Festival and school holidays drive the highest prices, so I set long minimums and keep weekends firm across Downtown and Palm Jumeirah. 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 listing handles building access, key collection and parking in busy towers, since guests in Marina and Downtown often face delays that hurt reviews.
Move Eid and Ramadan pricing every year, since the dates shift about 11 days. Next: price by building and view inside Marina, JBR and Downtown, not by area average. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Dubai 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 Dubai: June to August. June to September: I lean on GCC families visiting malls and indoor attractions and price the school-holiday weeks a touch above the rest of summer. April to May: The Dubai World Cup and Eid bring short peaks, but heat rises, so I trim weekday rates and protect weekend and holiday dates.
Summer rates cut so deeply that stays lose money after cleaning and DTCM fees and sea-view and city-view units in the same tower priced almost the same. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Dubai, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in Dubai, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Dubai sells mostly through Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and Expedia. December to January: New Year's Eve, Dubai Shopping Festival and school holidays drive the highest prices, so I set long minimums and keep weekends firm across Downtown and Palm Jumeirah.
Business Bay: Close to Downtown and DWTC; I price weekdays for exhibition and corporate guests and weekends for leisure visitors who want Burj Khalifa views. Palm Jumeirah and Jumeirah Village Circle 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.
Winter sun travel from Europe, the UK and the CIS, New Year's Eve fireworks at Burj Khalifa and GITEX, Gulfood and other DWTC exhibitions are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Dubai. June to September: I lean on GCC families visiting malls and indoor attractions and price the school-holiday weeks a touch above the rest of summer.
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 1,250+ properties in and around Dubai and work remotely in Gulf Standard Time (UTC+4). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: price New Year's Eve with a 3 to 5-night minimum and a view premium for Burj Khalifa or fireworks views.
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 Dubai I would start from December to January: New Year's Eve, Dubai Shopping Festival and school holidays drive the highest prices, so I set long minimums and keep weekends firm across Downtown and Palm Jumeirah. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Dubai.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in Dubai is delivered remotely and scheduled in Gulf Standard Time (UTC+4), and 1,250+ properties in and around Dubai have been optimized, including in areas such as Palm Jumeirah. 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 Dubai.
The other services I offer in Dubai, 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 Dubai, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside Dubai, 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 Dubai and what you need. I reply in Gulf Standard Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
