Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Durango 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 Mountain Time (UTC-7).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides outsourced hotel revenue management for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Durango, United States, one to one, remotely and in Mountain Time (UTC-7). In Durango, I price June to August as the peak and April to May 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 Durango
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Mountain 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 Durango: The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad; Purgatory Resort winter skiing; Animas River rafting and the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic; Mesa Verde National Park day trips. Guests I price for: Families and outdoor travellers on 3 to 5 night summer stays near downtown Durango and the Animas Valley, plus winter skiers and Snowdown festival crowds. Where I start: Dual summer and winter peaks with distinct rafting and ski demand, event minimums around the Iron Horse and Snowdown, and mud-season monthly pricing.
Durango hotels juggle railroad groups, rafting families, skiers and university visitors. I help define seasonal rate fences, set packages with train or ski tickets where they make sense, and choose a comp set that separates downtown historic hotels from motels along the highway corridor.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Durango.
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.
“Durango has two real seasons, summer railroad and rafting, and winter skiing at Purgatory, with events like the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic and Snowdown adding spikes. Summer visitors stay a few nights in town, ski guests want easy mountain access. I price the two seasons on separate curves and fill mud season with longer stays.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Purgatory's holiday weeks and Snowdown in early February are the winter highlights; I price those firmly and fill quieter ski weekdays with longer stays from New Mexico and Texas.
Snow melts and the train has not reached Silverton yet, so I use monthly stays and lower floors, then lift Memorial Day for the Iron Horse.
Railroad and rafting families fill the town, so I price weekends highest, protect multi-night stays and keep weekdays firm while the Silverton train is running.
Fall colour on the Million Dollar Highway and the Cowboy Poetry Gathering lift some weekends, so I price those dates individually and lower the rest gradually.
The Polar Express train and early ski season help weekends, so I lift December dates for families and keep November floors realistic until Purgatory opens.
Price the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic on Memorial Day weekend as an event premium.
Run June to August with 3-night minimums for railroad and rafting families.
Price Purgatory holiday weeks as the top ski bands.
Add Snowdown weekend in February.
Offer monthly rates in April, May and late autumn.
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 Durango: June to August for the railroad and rafting, the December to March ski season, and the Memorial Day Iron Horse. January to March: Purgatory's holiday weeks and Snowdown in early February are the winter highlights; I price those firmly and fill quieter ski weekdays with longer stays from New Mexico and Texas. June to August: Railroad and rafting families fill the town, so I price weekends highest, protect multi-night stays and keep weekdays firm while the Silverton train is running. 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 describes the drive to Purgatory and parking for ski gear, because winter guests compare that commute against slope-side condos up the valley.
Price Purgatory holiday weeks as the top ski bands. Next: offer monthly rates in April, May and late autumn. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Durango 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 Durango: April to May and the late-autumn lull. April to May: Snow melts and the train has not reached Silverton yet, so I use monthly stays and lower floors, then lift Memorial Day for the Iron Horse. September to October: Fall colour on the Million Dollar Highway and the Cowboy Poetry Gathering lift some weekends, so I price those dates individually and lower the rest gradually.
Iron Horse weekend priced like ordinary Memorial Day and mud season left empty. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Durango, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in Durango, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Durango sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. April to May: Snow melts and the train has not reached Silverton yet, so I use monthly stays and lower floors, then lift Memorial Day for the Iron Horse.
Downtown Durango and Main Avenue: Walk to the train depot, restaurants and the river trail; I price summer and event weekends highest and keep winter rates for couples and small groups. Animas Valley and the north corridor and Purgatory base area 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.
Mesa Verde National Park day trips, The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad and Purgatory Resort winter skiing are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Durango. November to December: The Polar Express train and early ski season help weekends, so I lift December dates for families and keep November floors realistic until Purgatory opens.
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 Durango and work remotely in Mountain Time (UTC-7). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: run June to August with 3-night minimums for railroad and rafting families.
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 Durango I would start from January to March: Purgatory's holiday weeks and Snowdown in early February are the winter highlights; I price those firmly and fill quieter ski weekdays with longer stays from New Mexico and Texas. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Durango.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in Durango is delivered remotely and scheduled in Mountain Time (UTC-7), and 100+ properties in and around Durango have been optimized, including in areas such as Animas Valley and the north corridor. 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 Durango.
The other services I offer in Durango, 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 Durango, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside Durango, 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 Durango and what you need. I reply in Mountain Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
