Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Hershey 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 Hershey, United States, one to one, remotely and in Eastern Time (UTC-5). In Hershey, I price June to August as the peak and Late January 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 Hershey
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 Hershey: Hersheypark and Hershey's Chocolate World; Hersheypark Christmas Candylane and Sweet Lights; Giant Center concerts and Hershey Bears hockey; The Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg. Guests I price for: Mid-Atlantic families on 2 to 3 night theme-park stays around Hershey and Harrisburg, plus concert and state-capital business visitors. Where I start: Theme-park summer demand plus a holiday Candylane spike, event-night premiums around the Giant Center, and midweek pricing between weekend peaks.
Hershey and Harrisburg hotels juggle theme-park families, concert crowds and state business. With my five-star hotel revenue background, I help with park packages, concert-night controls, government and corporate rates, and segmentation that protects summer Saturdays and Candylane weekends from early discounted groups.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Hershey.
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.
“Hershey is a theme-park market with a second season many owners miss: Christmas Candylane from late November to December. Summer families fill Hersheypark weekends, Giant Center concerts create single-night spikes, and Harrisburg adds business and state-capital travel. The Farm Show in January is the last spike before a quiet winter.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
The Pennsylvania Farm Show fills Harrisburg for about a week, so I price those dates as a short premium near the Farm Show Complex, then let floors drop once it closes.
The quietest stretch; I lower floors, lean on state government and legislative visitors midweek, and price Hershey Bears home weekends slightly above other winter nights.
Hersheypark opens on spring weekends first, so I follow the park's operating calendar and lift only the Saturdays it is open rather than the whole month.
Families fill every summer week; I make three-night stays attractive with a small discount and let stadium and arena show nights stand as their own peaks.
School is back, so I discount weekdays and price the park's Halloween season weekends above early September, when it runs a reduced schedule.
For the holiday run I set weekend minimums, price the week between Christmas and New Year highest, and keep Harrisburg units on business rates midweek.
Price Hersheypark summer weekends with 2-night minimums.
Price Christmas Candylane weekends as a second season.
Add Giant Center concert nights as date premiums.
Price the Pennsylvania Farm Show for Harrisburg homes.
Set weekday rates for business travel in Harrisburg.
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 Hershey: June to August for Hersheypark and late November to December for Christmas Candylane, with Giant Center concerts spiking individual dates. June to August: Families fill every summer week; I make three-night stays attractive with a small discount and let stadium and arena show nights stand as their own peaks. November to December: For the holiday run I set weekend minimums, price the week between Christmas and New Year highest, and keep Harrisburg units on business rates midweek. 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 concert and hockey schedules for the Giant Center and Hersheypark Stadium are loaded as date premiums, since big shows sell out nearby rooms within days of going on sale.
Add Giant Center concert nights as date premiums. Next: set weekday rates for business travel in Harrisburg. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Hershey 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 Hershey: late January to March, after the Farm Show. September to October: School is back, so I discount weekdays and price the park's Halloween season weekends above early September, when it runs a reduced schedule. Early to mid-January: The Pennsylvania Farm Show fills Harrisburg for about a week, so I price those dates as a short premium near the Farm Show Complex, then let floors drop once it closes.
Concert nights priced like ordinary nights and hershey and Harrisburg homes priced from one comp set. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Hershey, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in Hershey, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Hershey sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. Early to mid-January: The Pennsylvania Farm Show fills Harrisburg for about a week, so I price those dates as a short premium near the Farm Show Complex, then let floors drop once it closes.
Hershey and Palmyra: Closest to the park, Chocolate World and the arena; I price summer and holiday weekends highest and protect family weeks from single-night concert bookings. Downtown Harrisburg and Midtown and Hummelstown and Middletown 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.
The Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Hersheypark and Hershey's Chocolate World and Hersheypark Christmas Candylane and Sweet Lights are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Hershey. June to August: Families fill every summer week; I make three-night stays attractive with a small discount and let stadium and arena show nights stand as their own peaks.
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 Hershey and work remotely in Eastern Time (UTC-5). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: price Christmas Candylane weekends as a second season.
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 Hershey I would start from June to August: Families fill every summer week; I make three-night stays attractive with a small discount and let stadium and arena show nights stand as their own peaks. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Hershey.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in Hershey is delivered remotely and scheduled in Eastern Time (UTC-5), and 100+ properties in and around Hershey have been optimized, including in areas such as Downtown Harrisburg and Midtown. 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 Hershey.
The other services I offer in Hershey, 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 Hershey, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside Hershey, 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 Hershey and what you need. I reply in Eastern Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
