Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Indiana Dunes 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 Indiana Dunes, United States, one to one, remotely and in Central Time (UTC-6). In Indiana Dunes, I price June 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 Indiana Dunes
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 Indiana Dunes: Indiana Dunes National Park beaches; Chicago weekend escapes via the South Shore Line; Michigan City lighthouse and outlets; Blue Chip Casino and lakeshore dining. Guests I price for: Chicago families and couples on 2 to 3 night summer weekends. Where I start: Summer weekend premiums with 2-night minimums, holiday-week pricing, and winter floors.
Hotels here range from the casino resort and outlet-area chains in Michigan City to small inns in Chesterton. With five-star hotel revenue experience behind me, I help them separate Chicago leisure weekends from weekday industrial travel along I-94, price football and holiday weekends, and build a comp set that includes Harbor Country lodging across the state line.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Indiana Dunes.
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.
For hotels around the Dunes and Michigan City, summer weekends from Chicago are only part of the picture. Weekday demand comes from industrial and contractor travel along I-94 and the lakeshore plants, autumn adds Notre Dame football overflow, and the casino keeps some weekends busy all year. When I run revenue here I manage leisure and business segments with separate rules.
My first task is splitting last year's room nights into leisure, business, group and event segments, so every rate change has a clear target.
Lake-effect snow and empty beaches mean I chase short couple escapes, casino weekends and hikers on the dune trails, with low floors and single nights allowed outside holiday dates.
Spring migration and the Indiana Dunes Birding Festival bring visitors before swimmers, so I lift Saturdays a little, keep Sunday to Thursday cheap, and start summer pricing at Memorial Day.
A small, quiet town inside the national park with its own South Shore Line stop; I price homes here as premium car-free weekends and keep strict summer minimums.
My full Indiana Dunes calendar, areas, pricing moves and the mistakes I fix are on the revenue management consultant page for Indiana Dunes.
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 Indiana Dunes: June to August, with summer weekends the highest. June to August: Every Friday and Saturday is valuable; I open summer early, hold the weekend minimum until about ten days out and keep weekday rates attractive for families who can travel midweek. September to October: Warm September weekends still sell to Chicago couples and home football games lift Michigan City, so I shorten stays and price each weekend on its own merits. 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 local registration and Indiana's innkeeper's tax are in place, since requirements differ between Michigan City, the small beach towns and unincorporated parts of LaPorte and Porter counties.
Lift Notre Dame home football weekends in autumn for Michigan City homes, since South Bend fills and fans look west along the lakeshore. Next: from November to March, price for couples who want the quiet lakeshore, with low floors, one-night weekday stays and weekly offers. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Indiana Dunes 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 Indiana Dunes: November to March. April to May: Spring migration and the Indiana Dunes Birding Festival bring visitors before swimmers, so I lift Saturdays a little, keep Sunday to Thursday cheap, and start summer pricing at Memorial Day. November to March: Lake-effect snow and empty beaches mean I chase short couple escapes, casino weekends and hikers on the dune trails, with low floors and single nights allowed outside holiday dates.
Inland homes priced like beach-walk cottages and holiday weekends priced like ordinary summer Saturdays, with no longer minimum. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Indiana Dunes, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in Indiana Dunes, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Indiana Dunes sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. June to August: Every Friday and Saturday is valuable; I open summer early, hold the weekend minimum until about ten days out and keep weekday rates attractive for families who can travel midweek.
Beverly Shores: A small, quiet town inside the national park with its own South Shore Line stop; I price homes here as premium car-free weekends and keep strict summer minimums. Michigan City and Washington Park and Chesterton and Porter 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.
Blue Chip Casino and lakeshore dining, Indiana Dunes National Park beaches and Chicago weekend escapes via the South Shore Line are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Indiana Dunes. April to May: Spring migration and the Indiana Dunes Birding Festival bring visitors before swimmers, so I lift Saturdays a little, keep Sunday to Thursday cheap, and start summer pricing at Memorial Day.
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 Indiana Dunes and work remotely in Central Time (UTC-6). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: price homes by walking time to the beach, with a clear step down for anything that needs a car and paid parking.
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 Indiana Dunes I would start from June to August: Every Friday and Saturday is valuable; I open summer early, hold the weekend minimum until about ten days out and keep weekday rates attractive for families who can travel midweek. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Indiana Dunes.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in Indiana Dunes is delivered remotely and scheduled in Central Time (UTC-6), and 100+ properties in and around Indiana Dunes have been optimized, including in areas such as Michigan City and Washington Park. 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 Indiana Dunes.
The other services I offer in Indiana Dunes, 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 Indiana Dunes, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside Indiana Dunes, 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 Indiana Dunes and what you need. I reply in Central Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
