Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Houston 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 Time (UTC-6).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides outsourced hotel revenue management for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Houston, United States, one to one, remotely and in Central Time (UTC-6). In Houston, I price February to March as the peak and July to August 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 Houston
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Central 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 Houston: Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; Texas Medical Center patient and family stays; Energy-sector business travel; Astros and Texans games. Guests I price for: Medical travellers on 1 to 4 week stays, corporate guests midweek, and Rodeo visitors in March. Where I start: Medical-stay weekly and monthly discount ladders near the Medical Center, Rodeo premiums, and summer floors.
Houston hotels balance medical, energy, convention and event demand. With my five-star hotel revenue background, I help with segmentation, negotiated corporate and medical rates, convention and Rodeo controls, and summer strategies that protect rate while filling rooms during the slowest, hottest weeks of the year.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Houston.
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.
“Houston is one of the few markets where hospitals drive short-term rental demand as much as tourism. Families and patients near the Texas Medical Center stay for weeks, and they care about distance, parking and a sensible weekly price more than design. Add the Rodeo in late winter and energy-sector travel, and the calendar is steadier than most people expect.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Corporate and medical travel return after the holidays, so I keep weekday rates steady near the Medical Center and Energy Corridor and price weekends for value.
Rodeo weeks fill the city; I open those dates early with two-night minimums near NRG Park and keep medical guests on their weekly rates.
The Offshore Technology Conference in May is the big spike; I price OTC week as its own premium and keep other spring weekdays on steady corporate rates.
Heat and storm watches thin leisure demand, so I lower floors, lean on medical and relocation stays and keep cancellation terms easy.
Conferences, Texans and Astros games and the holiday run lift demand; I price game and conference dates individually and keep medical weekly ladders unchanged.
Build weekly and monthly discount ladders for homes within reach of the Texas Medical Center.
Price the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo weeks as the top band of the year.
Set weekday corporate rates for Energy Corridor and downtown homes.
Add Astros and Texans home dates for homes near the stadiums.
Keep summer and hurricane-watch floors realistic, with flexible minimum stays.
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 Houston: February to March (Rodeo) and October to November, plus medical-centre demand year-round. February to March: Rodeo weeks fill the city; I open those dates early with two-night minimums near NRG Park and keep medical guests on their weekly rates. September to December: Conferences, Texans and Astros games and the holiday run lift demand; I price game and conference dates individually and keep medical weekly ladders unchanged. 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 home meets any current city registration and tax requirements, because Houston has been tightening its approach to short stays and compliance protects the listing.
Set weekday corporate rates for Energy Corridor and downtown homes. Next: keep summer and hurricane-watch floors realistic, with flexible minimum stays. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Houston 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 Houston: July to August heat and hurricane-watch weeks. January: Corporate and medical travel return after the holidays, so I keep weekday rates steady near the Medical Center and Energy Corridor and price weekends for value. April to June: The Offshore Technology Conference in May is the big spike; I price OTC week as its own premium and keep other spring weekdays on steady corporate rates.
Rodeo dates left at normal rates and listings near the Medical Center that do not mention distance, parking or accessibility. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Houston, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in Houston, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Houston sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and Furnished Finder. February to March: Rodeo weeks fill the city; I open those dates early with two-night minimums near NRG Park and keep medical guests on their weekly rates.
Medical Center and Museum District: Medical families and patients stay for weeks; I price for weekly and monthly stays and keep weekends close to weekday rates. Energy Corridor and the west side and Downtown, EaDo and Midtown 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.
Astros and Texans games, Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and Texas Medical Center patient and family stays are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Houston. September to December: Conferences, Texans and Astros games and the holiday run lift demand; I price game and conference dates individually and keep medical weekly ladders unchanged.
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 Houston and work remotely in Central Time (UTC-6). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: price the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo weeks as the top band of the year.
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 Houston I would start from February to March: Rodeo weeks fill the city; I open those dates early with two-night minimums near NRG Park and keep medical guests on their weekly rates. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Houston.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in Houston is delivered remotely and scheduled in Central Time (UTC-6), and 100+ properties in and around Houston have been optimized, including in areas such as Energy Corridor and the west side. 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 Houston.
The other services I offer in Houston, 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 Houston, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside Houston, 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 Houston and what you need. I reply in Central Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
