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 Norman, one to one, remotely and in Central Time (UTC-6), 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 Norman, United States, one to one, remotely and in Central Time (UTC-6). In Norman, I price Late August to November as the peak and December to February and July to mid-August 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 Norman
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Central 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 Norman: Oklahoma Sooners football at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium; University of Oklahoma graduation and campus events; Lake Thunderbird recreation; Oklahoma City event spillover. Guests I price for: Sooners fans and alumni on game weekends, university families, and Oklahoma City event visitors. Where I start: Opponent-tiered game pricing, graduation premiums, and winter floors.
Norman sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. Norman hotels depend on football weekends, graduation and university business, with Oklahoma City events adding overflow. With my five-star revenue background I help set game-day packages and restrictions, negotiate university and research park rates for weekdays, and build a comp set that reflects both the campus hotels and the I-35 corridor.
The service in general is described on my trip.com optimization page; this page covers how I apply it in Norman.
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.
Trip.com demand in Norman is small and mostly academic: families of international students and researchers visiting the university and weather centre. For most hotels here it ranks well behind Booking.com, Expedia and Google. Once those are in order, I make sure Trip.com has complete content, clear airport directions from Oklahoma City and room descriptions that match reality.
I start by confirming the channel connection posts rates correctly, then time any promotion around commencement and the start of the autumn term.
With students away and football over, I drop floors, open monthly rates for visiting scientists and contractors, and lift only the dates of big Sooners basketball games at the Lloyd Noble Center.
Spring brings the Medieval Fair, the music festival, campus visits and commencement, so I price each of those weekends on its own and hold storm-season cancellation terms clearly in the listing.
Larger homes with land suit family reunions and lake weekends, so I market them for space in spring and summer and keep football premiums lighter because of the drive.
My full Norman calendar, areas, pricing moves and the mistakes I fix are on the revenue management consultant page for Norman.
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.
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 Norman, i optimize Trip.com alongside your other channels and check parity, so added reach never creates a conflict. Norman sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. March to May: Spring brings the Medieval Fair, the music festival, campus visits and commencement, so I price each of those weekends on its own and hold storm-season cancellation terms clearly in the listing.
Busiest in Norman: Oklahoma Sooners home football weekends in the autumn, plus graduation in May and the Women's College World Series in nearby Oklahoma City in June. March to May: Spring brings the Medieval Fair, the music festival, campus visits and commencement, so I price each of those weekends on its own and hold storm-season cancellation terms clearly in the listing. June: The Women's College World Series runs in Oklahoma City, and I lift the full tournament window when the Sooners are playing, with shorter minimums because fans follow the bracket day by day. 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 Norman. Sooners fans and alumni on game weekends, university families, and Oklahoma City event visitors. Demand is driven by Oklahoma City event spillover and Oklahoma Sooners football at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.
East Norman near Lake Thunderbird: Larger homes with land suit family reunions and lake weekends, so I market them for space in spring and summer and keep football premiums lighter because of the drive. Campus Corner and the university core and Downtown Norman and Main Street 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 Norman 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 Norman traveler clicks. Use 2-night minimums on game weekends and allow single nights in July. Next: leave the Texas weekend at normal rates, since the Red River Rivalry is played in Dallas, not in Norman.
Whether the listing deals with storm season properly, with a clear note on shelter or safe rooms and a sensible cancellation policy, since spring travellers in Oklahoma ask about it before booking. 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 Norman, this is how I would approach it. With my five-star revenue background I help set game-day packages and restrictions, negotiate university and research park rates for weekdays, and build a comp set that reflects both the campus hotels and the I-35 corridor. Norman hotels depend on football weekends, graduation and university business, with Oklahoma City events adding overflow. 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 Norman and work remotely in Central Time (UTC-6). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: price SEC visitors with large travelling fan bases in the top band, and early non-conference games lower.
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 Norman I would start from late August to November: Move-in weekend then football: I price each home Saturday from the opponent's travelling support, keep away weekends near base and keep watch for Thanksgiving week when the schedule ends at home. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Norman.
Yes. Trip.com Optimization Expert for Hotels in Norman is delivered remotely and scheduled in Central Time (UTC-6), and 100+ properties in and around Norman have been optimized, including in areas such as East Norman near Lake Thunderbird. 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 Norman.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In Norman the first gains from Trip.com optimization for hotels usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: leave the Texas weekend at normal rates, since the Red River Rivalry is played in Dallas, not in Norman. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
The other services I offer in Norman, 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 Norman, or read the general page for trip.com optimization.
If you also run properties outside Norman, 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 Norman and what you need. I reply in Central Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
