Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Matera 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 European Time (UTC+1).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides outsourced hotel revenue management for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Matera, Italy, one to one, remotely and in Central European Time (UTC+1). In Matera, I price April to June as the peak and 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 Matera
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Central European 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 Matera: Sassi di Matera cave dwellings; film-location tourism from No Time to Die and The Passion of the Christ; Festa della Madonna della Bruna; UNESCO rupestrian churches. Guests I price for: couples and experience-seeking travellers on 2 to 3 night stays inside the cave districts of Sasso Caveoso and Sasso Barisano. Where I start: premium cave-stay positioning, a shoulder-heavy calendar that avoids the August heat, and Basilicata regional coding plus national CIN.
Cave hotels and boutique properties in Matera compete on experience, not size. From my five-star hotel years I work on room-type pricing by view and cave depth, packaging dinners or guided Sassi walks, and how much inventory to give the OTAs in the strong shoulder months.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Matera.
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.
“Matera sells cave stays inside the Sassi, boosted by film tourism from No Time to Die. Guests stay two or three nights and pay for the experience. Spring and autumn are best, August heat and winter are weaker. The Sassi are steep and some cave homes are hard to reach with luggage, so honest listing details and fair pricing for access avoid disappointed guests and poor reviews.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Winter visitors come in small numbers for quiet Sassi walks, so I keep cave stays at a protected floor and add midweek offers rather than cutting weekends that still sell.
Spring is Matera at its best, so I open these dates early with confident rates and allow two-night stays only when they follow or precede another booking.
The 2 July procession and the storming of the cart fill the old town, so I price the nights around it as a small premium block with a two-night minimum.
Heat in the ravine thins daytime sightseeing, so I keep rates steady but competitive and highlight cool cave interiors, which is a genuine selling point at this time of year.
September and October behave like spring, so I hold firm, then ease November weekdays and price the Christmas period on its own because the Sassi draw seasonal visitors.
Price cave stays as a premium product.
Price April to June and September to October as main seasons.
Add Festa della Bruna in early July.
Use 2-night minimums.
Display regional codes and CIN.
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 Matera: April to June and September to October, with the Festa della Bruna in early July. April to June: Spring is Matera at its best, so I open these dates early with confident rates and allow two-night stays only when they follow or precede another booking. Early July (Festa della Bruna): The 2 July procession and the storming of the cart fill the old town, so I price the nights around it as a small premium block with a two-night minimum. 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 cave unit has proper ventilation and dehumidification, since damp is the quickest route to poor reviews in rock-cut rooms, and no rate strategy survives a string of three-star stays.
Add Festa della Bruna in early July. Next: display regional codes and CIN. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Matera 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 Matera: August heat and the depth of winter. Mid-July to August: Heat in the ravine thins daytime sightseeing, so I keep rates steady but competitive and highlight cool cave interiors, which is a genuine selling point at this time of year. January to March: Winter visitors come in small numbers for quiet Sassi walks, so I keep cave stays at a protected floor and add midweek offers rather than cutting weekends that still sell.
August priced as peak and listings without codes. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Matera, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in Matera, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Matera sells mostly through Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo. April to June: Spring is Matera at its best, so I open these dates early with confident rates and allow two-night stays only when they follow or precede another booking.
Sasso Caveoso: The most dramatic cave district near the rupestrian churches; I price restored caves with views at the top of the market and keep the stair count honest. Sasso Barisano and The Piano (upper town) 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.
UNESCO rupestrian churches, Sassi di Matera cave dwellings and film-location tourism from No Time to Die and The Passion of the Christ are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Matera. September to December: September and October behave like spring, so I hold firm, then ease November weekdays and price the Christmas period on its own because the Sassi draw seasonal visitors.
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 Matera and work remotely in Central European Time (UTC+1). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: price April to June and September to October as main seasons.
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 Matera I would start from early July (Festa della Bruna): The 2 July procession and the storming of the cart fill the old town, so I price the nights around it as a small premium block with a two-night minimum. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Matera.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in Matera is delivered remotely and scheduled in Central European Time (UTC+1), and 100+ properties in and around Matera have been optimized, including in areas such as Sasso Barisano. 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 Matera.
The other services I offer in Matera, 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 Matera, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside Matera, 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 Matera and what you need. I reply in Central European Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
