Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Oaxaca 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 Standard Time (UTC-6).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides outsourced hotel revenue management for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Oaxaca, Mexico, one to one, remotely and in Central Standard Time (UTC-6). In Oaxaca, I price July (Guelaguetza) and Mid-October to early November as the peak and August 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 Oaxaca
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Central Standard 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 Oaxaca: Día de Muertos; Guelaguetza festival; Food and mezcal tourism; Puerto Escondido surf season. Guests I price for: US and European travellers on 4 to 6 night stays. Where I start: Festival premiums with minimum stays and shoulder floors.
My first decade was in five-star hotel revenue, so for Oaxaca boutique hotels I help manage the festival peaks, decide when to release rooms to OTAs and when to hold them for direct guests, and price room types by courtyard, view and location.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Oaxaca.
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.
“Oaxaca has two festivals that decide much of the year: Día de Muertos and the Guelaguetza. Food and mezcal tourism keep visitors coming between them. Supply is limited in the historic centre. Visitors come for culture and food rather than beaches, so walkability to the centre and markets is the main location factor.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Dry, sunny months bring food lovers and Semana Santa visitors, so I keep rates firm and price Easter as its own week with a three night minimum.
Heat and early rains slow travel, so I offer weekly and monthly terms to language students and remote workers rather than cutting the nightly rate deeply.
The two festival Mondays on the Cerro del Fortín anchor the month; I build a premium block around them with minimum stays and keep the rest of July close to normal.
Rainy season and the post-festival lull mean a firm floor and longer stays, with weekend offers for domestic visitors driving in from Puebla and Mexico City.
I open Día de Muertos rates well ahead with four night minimums, because photographers and culture travellers often book these dates many months in advance.
Christmas visitors and the Noche de Rábanos on December 23 lift the second half of the month, so I raise those dates and keep early December closer to shoulder pricing.
Price Día de Muertos as the top band with minimum stays.
Price the Guelaguetza in July.
Price historic centre homes higher.
Add Christmas as a premium.
Lower May to June and September 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 Oaxaca: Día de Muertos in late October to early November, Guelaguetza in July, and Christmas. January to April: Dry, sunny months bring food lovers and Semana Santa visitors, so I keep rates firm and price Easter as its own week with a three night minimum. July (Guelaguetza): The two festival Mondays on the Cerro del Fortín anchor the month; I build a premium block around them with minimum stays and keep the rest of July close to normal. 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 explains water, hot water and power reliability honestly, since older colonial homes in the centre can surprise guests and those surprises show up in reviews.
Price historic centre homes higher. Next: lower May to June and September floors. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Oaxaca 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 Oaxaca: May to June and September. August to September: Rainy season and the post-festival lull mean a firm floor and longer stays, with weekend offers for domestic visitors driving in from Puebla and Mexico City. May to June: Heat and early rains slow travel, so I offer weekly and monthly terms to language students and remote workers rather than cutting the nightly rate deeply.
Guelaguetza ignored and short stays over festivals. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Oaxaca, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in Oaxaca, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Oaxaca sells mostly through Airbnb and Booking.com. January to April: Dry, sunny months bring food lovers and Semana Santa visitors, so I keep rates firm and price Easter as its own week with a three night minimum.
Centro Histórico: Colonial homes near Santo Domingo and the markets; I price these as the top tier and protect festival weeks with longer minimum stays. Jalatlaco and Reforma and San Felipe 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.
Puerto Escondido surf season, Día de Muertos and Guelaguetza festival are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Oaxaca. August to September: Rainy season and the post-festival lull mean a firm floor and longer stays, with weekend offers for domestic visitors driving in from Puebla and Mexico City.
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 Oaxaca and work remotely in Central Standard Time (UTC-6). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: price the Guelaguetza in July.
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 Oaxaca I would start from mid-October to early November: I open Día de Muertos rates well ahead with four night minimums, because photographers and culture travellers often book these dates many months in advance. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Oaxaca.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in Oaxaca is delivered remotely and scheduled in Central Standard Time (UTC-6), and 100+ properties in and around Oaxaca have been optimized, including in areas such as Jalatlaco. 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 Oaxaca.
The other services I offer in Oaxaca, 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 Oaxaca, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside Oaxaca, 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 Oaxaca and what you need. I reply in Central Standard Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
