Rank higher and convert more on Booking.com, with a consultant in your extranet.I complete the content score, order the photos for the result card, set up rate plans, Genius and promotions, and fix policies that cost you visibility. I work with hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Manila, one to one, remotely and in Philippine Time (UTC+8), and I have optimized 100+ properties in and around the market.
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides Booking.com optimization for hotels for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Manila, Philippines, one to one, remotely and in Philippine Time (UTC+8). In Manila, I price March to May and November to December as the peak and June to October as the quiet time, and I build the work around that calendar. Booking.com optimization has three fixed-price plans from $95 for one listing, priced by listing count and delivered live on Zoom.
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100+
Properties optimized in and around Manila
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Philippine Time
Sessions scheduled in your local time
Booking.com optimization for hotels is the work I do to make a property rank, convert and price correctly on Booking.com. I complete the content score, order the photos for the result card, set up rate plans, Genius and promotions, and fix policies that cost you visibility.
What I plan around in Manila: Boracay and Cebu beach season; Balikbayan Christmas travel; Business process outsourcing corporate travel; Sinulog and festivals. Guests I price for: Domestic families and regional travellers on 3 to 5 night stays, corporate guests in Makati and BGC. Where I start: Dry-season premiums, Christmas minimum stays, and condo positioning in Makati and BGC.
Manila sells mostly through Airbnb, Booking.com and Agoda. With my five-star hotel background, I help Philippine hotels and resorts balance outsourcing-sector corporate contracts, domestic group travel and OTA demand, with rate fences for Holy Week and Christmas and a strategy for the typhoon months that keeps corporate weekdays and domestic weekends working together.
The service in general is described on my hotel ota optimization page; this page covers how I apply it in Manila.
Booking.com reads how complete your profile is. I fill every field it scores, rewrite descriptions for the guests who book here and make room content consistent.
The first photo and the first five decide the click. I choose and order them against your nearest competitors and caption what guests look for.
I structure rate plans, decide whether Genius and each deal pay for themselves, and set promotions so you buy visibility without discounting the whole calendar.
Cancellation terms, response times and review scores feed ranking. I tune the policies and write response templates so the signals keep improving.
“The Philippines needs three strategies under one heading. Makati and BGC condos serve corporate and outsourcing travel on weekdays, Boracay and Cebu sell dry-season beach holidays, and Christmas brings Filipinos home from abroad. Boracay also manages visitor numbers carefully since its rehabilitation, so accredited properties have an edge.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Sinulog in Cebu and Ati-Atihan in Kalibo near Boracay create festival weeks, so I price those dates as premiums and keep the rest of the dry season steady.
Summer school break and Holy Week bring domestic families to the beaches; I lift Boracay and Cebu rates sharply and set three-night minimums across the Easter long weekend.
Typhoons and rain slow leisure travel, so I keep beach floors sensible and lean on Makati and BGC corporate stays, which hold up better through the wet months.
Thirteenth-month pay, school breaks and balikbayan visits make Christmas the year's high point. I open December early, protect New Year with longer minimums and limit last-minute deals.
Booking.com ranks on completeness, price position and conversion together, and it rewards properties that look finished and priced with intent. A profile left on defaults sits below competitors that are no better than you, and you still pay the commission on the few bookings it brings. I fix the profile once and tune it with the pricing.
Set weekday corporate rates for Makati and BGC condos.
Price December to May beach season in Boracay and Cebu, with Holy Week highest.
Price Christmas as a premium for balikbayan family visits.
Confirm accreditation requirements on Boracay.
Lower rainy-season floors from June to October.
A new Booking.com listing
You have just connected Booking.com and want it to rank and convert from the first weeks, not after months of guessing.
Views but few bookings
Visibility looks fine and conversion does not, which usually means content, photos or rate plans on Booking.com.
Commission without much return
You pay Booking.com commission and its share of bookings is small next to your other channels.
A portfolio with uneven quality
Some listings are polished on Booking.com and others were never finished, and nobody owns the standard.
Send me the Booking.com listing or property links and your channel manager. I check how the property ranks and reads today before we speak.
A scorecard for Booking.com: content, photos, rates and promotions, policies and reviews, with every fix ranked by impact.
I make the changes live on Zoom in your Booking.com account or through your channel manager, and explain each one so you can maintain it.
Step 4
About 30 days later I look at impressions, conversion and booking share on Booking.com and adjust what the numbers say to adjust.
Booking.com optimization has three fixed-price plans, priced by listing count, from $95. Each is a live Zoom session with a full audit and the fixes made on the spot.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Single | 1 listing, 30-minute session | $95 |
| Portfolio | 2 to 4 listings, 45-minute session | $145 |
| Scale | 5 to 8 listings, 60-minute session | $245 |
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
Manila sells mostly through Airbnb, Booking.com and Agoda. November to December: Thirteenth-month pay, school breaks and balikbayan visits make Christmas the year's high point. I open December early, protect New Year with longer minimums and limit last-minute deals. For Booking.com optimization for hotels in Manila, i optimize Booking.com alongside your other channels and check parity, so added reach never creates a conflict.
For Booking.com optimization for hotels, on Booking.com, I line up promotions, rate plans and content with these windows so visibility peaks when demand does. Busiest in Manila: December to May dry season, Holy Week, and Christmas. January to February: Sinulog in Cebu and Ati-Atihan in Kalibo near Boracay create festival weeks, so I price those dates as premiums and keep the rest of the dry season steady. March to May: Summer school break and Holy Week bring domestic families to the beaches; I lift Boracay and Cebu rates sharply and set three-night minimums across the Easter long weekend.
Domestic families and regional travellers on 3 to 5 night stays, corporate guests in Makati and BGC. Demand is driven by Boracay and Cebu beach season and Balikbayan Christmas travel. For Booking.com optimization for hotels, i write content and photo order on Booking.com for the guests who actually search for Manila.
For Booking.com optimization for hotels, i write location content, photos and amenity highlights on Booking.com around the specific part of Manila the property is in. Mactan Island, Cebu: Close to the airport and resorts, it suits families and divers; I price Sinulog week and Holy Week as premiums and reward longer summer stays. Bonifacio Global City (BGC) and Boracay Station 2 get their own treatment.
Price December to May beach season in Boracay and Cebu, with Holy Week highest. Next: confirm accreditation requirements on Boracay. For Booking.com optimization for hotels, the first changes on Booking.com are content completeness and the cover photo, because those decide whether a Manila traveler clicks.
For Booking.com optimization for hotels, i check this on Booking.com first, because it decides whether the listing is allowed to rank at all. How the condo building in Makati or BGC treats short-stay guests, because some associations restrict them, and a guest turned away at reception damages the listing for months.
For Booking.com optimization for hotels in Manila, this is how I would approach it. With my five-star hotel background, I help Philippine hotels and resorts balance outsourcing-sector corporate contracts, domestic group travel and OTA demand, with rate fences for Holy Week and Christmas and a strategy for the typhoon months that keeps corporate weekdays and domestic weekends working together. We start in the chat, and I confirm the scope and the price before any work begins.
For Booking.com optimization for hotels, i price properties for a living, so content, rates and promotions are tuned together and not in isolation. I have optimized 100+ properties in and around Manila and work remotely in Philippine Time (UTC+8). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: price Christmas as a premium for balikbayan family visits.
Booking.com optimization has three fixed-price plans from $95 for one listing, priced by listing count and delivered live on Zoom. The scope of Booking.com optimization for hotels is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in Manila I would start from November to December: Thirteenth-month pay, school breaks and balikbayan visits make Christmas the year's high point. I open December early, protect New Year with longer minimums and limit last-minute deals. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Manila.
Yes. Booking.com Optimization Expert for Hotels in Manila is delivered remotely and scheduled in Philippine Time (UTC+8), and 100+ properties in and around Manila have been optimized, including in areas such as Mactan Island, Cebu. I implement it live on Zoom in your Booking.com extranet or through your channel manager, in your time zone. Start in the chat or by email and tell me what you run in Manila.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In Manila the first gains from Booking.com optimization for hotels usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: confirm accreditation requirements on Boracay. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
The other services I offer in Manila, 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 Manila, or read the general page for hotel ota optimization.
If you also run properties outside Manila, 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 Manila and what you need. I reply in Philippine Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
