Reach Chinese and Asian travelers, on Trip.com and Ctrip.I adapt your content for the Chinese and Asian traveler, set up promotions and flash sales, and manage the service signals Trip.com scores. 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 Trip.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. Trip.com optimization is quoted per property after a short chat, because the scope depends on the number of properties and room types.
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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
Trip.com optimization for hotels is the work I do to make a property rank, convert and price correctly on Trip.com. I adapt your content for the Chinese and Asian traveler, set up promotions and flash sales, and manage the service signals Trip.com scores.
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 trip.com optimization page; this page covers how I apply it in Manila.
These guests look for different things first. I rewrite content and highlight what they value, from payment and language support to specific facilities.
I order photos so the property card works for this audience and flag shots that do not suit it.
Trip.com runs on campaigns. I decide which promotions and flash sales earn their cost and structure rate plans to match.
Service scores and reply speed influence placement. I set response routines and fix the causes behind low scores.
“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.
Trip.com is the leading channel for Chinese outbound travel, and its guests book differently, expect different services and reward different signals. If your market receives these visitors, a profile written for them is a separate piece of work, not a translation.
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 Trip.com listing
You have just connected Trip.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 Trip.com.
Commission without much return
You pay Trip.com commission and its share of bookings is small next to your other channels.
A portfolio with uneven quality
Some listings are polished on Trip.com and others were never finished, and nobody owns the standard.
Send me the Trip.com listing or property links and your channel manager. I check how the property ranks and reads today before we speak.
A scorecard for Trip.com: content, photos, rates and promotions, policies and reviews, with every fix ranked by impact.
I make the changes live on Zoom in your Trip.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 Trip.com and adjust what the numbers say to adjust.
I quote Trip.com optimization per property after a short chat. You get a fixed scope and price before any work starts.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Single property | Trip.com optimization for one property | Quoted |
| Several properties | One scope and one price for a group on Trip.com | Quoted |
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
For Trip.com optimization for hotels in Manila, i optimize Trip.com alongside your other channels and check parity, so added reach never creates a conflict. Manila sells mostly through Airbnb, Booking.com and Agoda. June to October: 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.
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. For Trip.com optimization for hotels, on Trip.com, I line up promotions, rate plans and content with these windows so visibility peaks when demand does.
For Trip.com optimization for hotels, i write content and photo order on Trip.com for the guests who actually search for Manila. Domestic families and regional travellers on 3 to 5 night stays, corporate guests in Makati and BGC. Demand is driven by Sinulog and festivals and Boracay and Cebu beach season.
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. For Trip.com optimization for hotels, i write location content, photos and amenity highlights on Trip.com around the specific part of Manila the property is in.
For Trip.com optimization for hotels, the first changes on Trip.com are content completeness and the cover photo, because those decide whether a Manila traveler clicks. Lower rainy-season floors from June to October. Next: price December to May beach season in Boracay and Cebu, with Holy Week highest.
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 Trip.com optimization for hotels, i check this on Trip.com first, because it decides whether the listing is allowed to rank at all.
For Trip.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 Trip.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: set weekday corporate rates for Makati and BGC condos.
Trip.com optimization is quoted per property after a short chat, because the scope depends on the number of properties and room types. The scope of Trip.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. Trip.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 Trip.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 Trip.com optimization for hotels usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: price December to May beach season in Boracay and Cebu, with Holy Week highest. 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 trip.com 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.
