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 Oaxaca, one to one, remotely and in Central Standard 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 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. 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 Oaxaca
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Central Standard 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 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.
Oaxaca sells mostly through Airbnb and Booking.com. 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 trip.com optimization page; this page covers how I apply it in Oaxaca.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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 Oaxaca, i optimize Trip.com alongside your other channels and check parity, so added reach never creates a conflict. 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.
Busiest in Oaxaca: Día de Muertos in late October to early November, Guelaguetza in July, and Christmas. 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. December: 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. 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 Oaxaca. US and European travellers on 4 to 6 night stays. Demand is driven by Puerto Escondido surf season and Día de Muertos.
Reforma and San Felipe: Quieter residential areas a short taxi ride from the centre; I target families and long-stay guests with more space and price them for value rather than walkability. Centro Histórico and Jalatlaco 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 Oaxaca 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 Oaxaca traveler clicks. Lower May to June and September floors. Next: price the Guelaguetza in July.
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. 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 Oaxaca, this is how I would approach it. 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. 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 Oaxaca and work remotely in Central Standard Time (UTC-6). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: price Día de Muertos as the top band with minimum stays.
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 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. Trip.com Optimization Expert for Hotels 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 Reforma and San Felipe. 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 Oaxaca.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In Oaxaca the first gains from Trip.com optimization for hotels usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: price the Guelaguetza in July. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
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 trip.com optimization.
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.
