Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for New Orleans 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 New Orleans, United States, one to one, remotely and in Central Time (UTC-6). In New Orleans, I price January to Mardi Gras and Late April to early May as the peak and Late May to September 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 New Orleans
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 New Orleans: Mardi Gras; Jazz Fest and French Quarter Festival; Essence Fest and Sugar Bowl; Convention traffic at the Morial Center. Guests I price for: Festival groups and couples on 3 to 5 night stays in the Marigny, Bywater, Uptown and the Garden District. Where I start: Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest premiums with 4-plus-night minimums, hurricane-season floors, and licence-compliant positioning by neighbourhood.
With my five-star hotel background, I help New Orleans hotels balance convention, festival and leisure segments, set blocks and length-of-stay controls for Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest, and use rate fences that protect peak nights without losing convention business on weekdays.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in New Orleans.
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.
“New Orleans is a festival city with strict rules about where short stays are allowed. Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest can be priced with confidence months ahead, and they should carry long minimum stays. Summer and hurricane season need a very different approach. Before any of that, I check the permit, because the rules differ sharply by neighbourhood and property type.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
The Sugar Bowl opens the year and Carnival season builds from Twelfth Night, so I raise weekend rates steadily as parades start and keep parade-route homes priced above the rest.
St. Patrick's parades, the Tennessee Williams festival and French Quarter Fest keep weekends busy, so I price each event weekend individually and keep weekdays flexible.
Jazz Fest weekends at the Fair Grounds make Mid-City and Esplanade homes the most valuable in the city, so I price them highest and hold the weekdays between the weekends firmly.
Heat and storm risk thin demand, but Essence Fest over July 4th, Satchmo SummerFest and Southern Decadence on Labor Day give strong dates, which I price separately above a lean floor.
Saints games, Halloween, the Bayou Classic over Thanksgiving and the holiday season keep weekends full, so I load each date and keep minimum stays modest outside the big weekends.
Price Mardi Gras weekend and both Jazz Fest weekends as the top bands, with 4-night or longer minimums.
Add French Quarter Festival, Essence Fest and Sugar Bowl as their own date premiums.
Load big Morial Convention Center shows as weekday premiums for homes near downtown.
Lower floors for July to September and add weekly discounts, while keeping Halloween and autumn weekends priced up.
Confirm the permit type before deciding how many nights and guests the listing can take.
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 New Orleans: Mardi Gras (February or March), Jazz Fest in late April to early May, and October to December events. January to Mardi Gras: The Sugar Bowl opens the year and Carnival season builds from Twelfth Night, so I raise weekend rates steadily as parades start and keep parade-route homes priced above the rest. March and April: St. Patrick's parades, the Tennessee Williams festival and French Quarter Fest keep weekends busy, so I price each event weekend individually and keep weekdays flexible. 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. How far the home is from the parade routes, the Fair Grounds and the French Quarter, because festival guests pay for proximity and plan their stay around it.
Load big Morial Convention Center shows as weekday premiums for homes near downtown. Next: confirm the permit type before deciding how many nights and guests the listing can take. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a New Orleans 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 New Orleans: July to September heat and hurricane season. Late May to September: Heat and storm risk thin demand, but Essence Fest over July 4th, Satchmo SummerFest and Southern Decadence on Labor Day give strong dates, which I price separately above a lean floor.
Summer rates that do not fall enough to win the limited demand that exists and listings running without the permit their location requires. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in New Orleans, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in New Orleans, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. New Orleans sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. March and April: St. Patrick's parades, the Tennessee Williams festival and French Quarter Fest keep weekends busy, so I price each event weekend individually and keep weekdays flexible.
Mid-City and Esplanade Ridge: Walkable to the Fair Grounds and City Park; I give Jazz Fest weekends the strongest premium here and price the rest of the year for couples and families. Uptown and the Garden District and Marigny and Bywater 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.
Convention traffic at the Morial Center, Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest and French Quarter Festival are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in New Orleans. October to December: Saints games, Halloween, the Bayou Classic over Thanksgiving and the holiday season keep weekends full, so I load each date and keep minimum stays modest outside the big weekends.
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 New Orleans and work remotely in Central Time (UTC-6). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: add French Quarter Festival, Essence Fest and Sugar Bowl as their own date premiums.
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 New Orleans I would start from late April to early May: Jazz Fest weekends at the Fair Grounds make Mid-City and Esplanade homes the most valuable in the city, so I price them highest and hold the weekdays between the weekends firmly. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in New Orleans.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in New Orleans is delivered remotely and scheduled in Central Time (UTC-6), and 100+ properties in and around New Orleans have been optimized, including in areas such as Uptown and the Garden District. 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 New Orleans.
The other services I offer in New Orleans, 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 New Orleans, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside New Orleans, 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 New Orleans and what you need. I reply in Central Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
