Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for New River Gorge 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 New River Gorge, United States, one to one, remotely and in Eastern Time (UTC-5). In New River Gorge, I price September to mid-October as the peak and December to February 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 River Gorge
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 New River Gorge: Whitewater rafting on the New and Gauley rivers; Bridge Day and its BASE-jumping crowds; Rock climbing on the Nuttall sandstone; New River Gorge National Park, the nation's newest. Guests I price for: Adventure travellers from Washington, Ohio and the Carolinas on 2 to 3 night stays around Fayetteville and Lansing. Where I start: Single-day Bridge Day surge pricing, Gauley-season weekend premiums, and midweek discounting through a quiet mountain winter.
With my five-star hotel background, I help gorge lodges and adventure resorts set packages with rafting or climbing, group blocks for outfitters and events, length-of-stay controls over Bridge Day, and summer rate fences that protect weekends without losing midweek groups.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in New River Gorge.
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 River Gorge is an adventure market for rafters, climbers and hikers. Bridge Day in October is a single-day event that fills the area, and the autumn Gauley River release season brings serious rafters. Summer weekends are strong. Winter is quiet. I price Bridge Day and Gauley weekends aggressively.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Skiers heading to Winterplace and visitors walking the bridge catwalk keep some demand, so I allow one night stays and keep the floor modest for quiet weekends.
Spring climbing season and high water on the Lower New bring adventure guests, so I lift weekends and keep minimum stays short for climbers and paddlers.
Summer rafting and family trips fill weekends, so I hold Friday and Saturday rates, set two night minimums and offer midweek value to families and groups.
Gauley release weekends and Bridge Day on the third Saturday of October are the top dates, so I open them early with longer stays and the highest rates of the year.
Autumn colour and hunting season bring couples and hunters, so I keep weekend premiums modest and offer longer stays before the winter lull.
Price Bridge Day weekend as the top band with 2-night minimums.
Add Gauley River release weekends in autumn as premiums.
Use weekend pricing for summer rafting season.
Charge for gear storage and parking.
Discount weekdays and winter.
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 River Gorge: May to October, spiking on Bridge Day in October, the autumn Gauley River release season and summer rafting weekends. June to August: Summer rafting and family trips fill weekends, so I hold Friday and Saturday rates, set two night minimums and offer midweek value to families and groups. September to mid-October: Gauley release weekends and Bridge Day on the third Saturday of October are the top dates, so I open them early with longer stays and the highest rates of the year. 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 listing shows parking for trailers, gear storage and drying space, because rafters and climbers filter for these before they compare prices.
Use weekend pricing for summer rafting season. Next: discount weekdays and winter. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a New River Gorge 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 River Gorge: December to February. December to February: Skiers heading to Winterplace and visitors walking the bridge catwalk keep some demand, so I allow one night stays and keep the floor modest for quiet weekends. March to May: Spring climbing season and high water on the Lower New bring adventure guests, so I lift weekends and keep minimum stays short for climbers and paddlers.
Gauley season ignored and winter priced like summer. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in New River Gorge, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in New River Gorge, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. New River Gorge sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. March to May: Spring climbing season and high water on the Lower New bring adventure guests, so I lift weekends and keep minimum stays short for climbers and paddlers.
Fayetteville: The gorge's main town with restaurants and outfitters; I price homes here for couples and small groups, with Bridge Day and Gauley weekends at the top. Lansing and Ansted and Summersville Lake 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.
New River Gorge National Park, the nation's newest, Whitewater rafting on the New and Gauley rivers and Bridge Day and its BASE-jumping crowds are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in New River Gorge. Late October and November: Autumn colour and hunting season bring couples and hunters, so I keep weekend premiums modest and offer longer stays before the winter lull.
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 River Gorge and work remotely in Eastern Time (UTC-5). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: add Gauley River release weekends in autumn as 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 River Gorge I would start from June to August: Summer rafting and family trips fill weekends, so I hold Friday and Saturday rates, set two night minimums and offer midweek value to families and groups. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in New River Gorge.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in New River Gorge is delivered remotely and scheduled in Eastern Time (UTC-5), and 100+ properties in and around New River Gorge have been optimized, including in areas such as Lansing and Ansted. 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 River Gorge.
The other services I offer in New River Gorge, 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 River Gorge, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside New River Gorge, 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 River Gorge and what you need. I reply in Eastern Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
