Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Montréal 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 Eastern Time (UTC-5).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides outsourced hotel revenue management for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Montréal, Canada, one to one, remotely and in Eastern Time (UTC-5). In Montréal, I price 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 Montréal
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Eastern 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 Montréal: Canadian Grand Prix; Montréal Jazz Festival and Just for Laughs; Osheaga; Conference and university travel. Guests I price for: US and European visitors on 3 to 4 night stays in the Plateau, Old Montréal and Mile End. Where I start: Grand Prix and festival premiums, CITQ-compliant positioning, and winter floors.
My five-star background helps Montréal boutique hotels split leisure, conference and film-crew demand, fence the Grand Prix and festival weeks with proper stay controls, and choose a comp set by neighbourhood, since an Old Montréal hotel and a Plateau one serve different guests.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Montréal.
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.
“Montréal is a festival city with strict rules. Short-term rentals need a CITQ registration, and the city has limited rentals of non-principal residences to a summer window in most boroughs. The Grand Prix, Jazz Festival and Osheaga are the peaks. I check the property's status first, then price the festival calendar.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Igloofest and Montréal en Lumière give a few weekends some life, so I price those and otherwise rely on conferences, students and longer stays to keep winter occupied.
As the terraces open, weekend demand returns first; I lift Friday and Saturday rates while leaving midweek near winter levels until June.
Grand Prix weekend gets a three-night minimum and its own rate, and the Francofolies and early Jazz Festival dates follow straight after, so I do not let the month average out.
Jazz Festival, Just for Laughs and Osheaga each get named premiums, with ordinary summer nights held firm because American visitors keep arriving by car.
Conferences and the start of the academic year carry weekdays, so I keep business-friendly midweek rates and soften weekends only after Thanksgiving.
Christmas markets and New Year in Old Montréal lift the final weeks, so I price the holiday period as a separate short season with a minimum stay.
Confirm CITQ registration and whether the unit is a principal residence.
Price the Grand Prix and summer festivals as top bands.
Plan non-principal units around the summer rental window.
Offer mid-term stays for students and professionals.
Lower January to March floors.
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 Montréal: June to September, with the Grand Prix in June, Jazz Festival and Osheaga, plus the Christmas season. June: Grand Prix weekend gets a three-night minimum and its own rate, and the Francofolies and early Jazz Festival dates follow straight after, so I do not let the month average out. July to August: Jazz Festival, Just for Laughs and Osheaga each get named premiums, with ordinary summer nights held firm because American visitors keep arriving by car. 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. Which metro line and station the unit sits near, since festival guests heading for the Quartier des Spectacles or Parc Jean-Drapeau choose by transit access.
Plan non-principal units around the summer rental window. Next: lower January to March floors. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Montréal 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 Montréal: January to March. January to March: Igloofest and Montréal en Lumière give a few weekends some life, so I price those and otherwise rely on conferences, students and longer stays to keep winter occupied. April to May: As the terraces open, weekend demand returns first; I lift Friday and Saturday rates while leaving midweek near winter levels until June.
Listings without CITQ numbers and grand Prix underpriced. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Montréal, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in Montréal, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Montréal sells mostly through Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo. January to March: Igloofest and Montréal en Lumière give a few weekends some life, so I price those and otherwise rely on conferences, students and longer stays to keep winter occupied.
Plateau Mont-Royal: The classic walk-up neighbourhood that guests picture; I price it for couples and festival-goers and reward longer summer stays rather than chasing one-night bookings. Old Montréal and Quartier des Spectacles and downtown 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.
Conference and university travel, Canadian Grand Prix and Montréal Jazz Festival and Just for Laughs are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Montréal. July to August: Jazz Festival, Just for Laughs and Osheaga each get named premiums, with ordinary summer nights held firm because American visitors keep arriving by car.
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 Montréal and work remotely in Eastern Time (UTC-5). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: price the Grand Prix and summer festivals as top bands.
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 Montréal I would start from July to August: Jazz Festival, Just for Laughs and Osheaga each get named premiums, with ordinary summer nights held firm because American visitors keep arriving by car. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Montréal.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in Montréal is delivered remotely and scheduled in Eastern Time (UTC-5), and 100+ properties in and around Montréal have been optimized, including in areas such as Old Montréal. 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 Montréal.
The other services I offer in Montréal, 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 Montréal, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside Montréal, 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 Montréal and what you need. I reply in Eastern Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
