An independent look at your hotel's revenue, and a plan you can run.I audit how your Columbus hotel prices, restricts, distributes and forecasts its rooms, then give you a ranked roadmap, a 12-month pricing calendar and training for your team. Fixed scope, fixed price, remote in Eastern Time (UTC-5), usually four to eight weeks.
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides hotel revenue management consulting for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Columbus, United States, one to one, remotely and in Eastern Time (UTC-5). In Columbus, I price September to November as the peak and January to February as the quiet time, and I build the work around that calendar. Hotel revenue management consulting is a fixed-scope, fixed-price engagement quoted after a free discovery call, based on room count, room types, channels and scope. An audit with a strategy roadmap is a single project fee, usually delivered in four to eight weeks.
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Hotel revenue management consulting is an independent review followed by a plan. I look at 12 to 24 months of your own data, shop your comp set, and find where rates, restrictions or channels are costing you money. Unlike outsourcing, I do not make your daily decisions; your team does, with a better plan.
This is my view of Columbus. Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati are three event-driven cities with medical and university demand. Ohio State football weekends in Columbus are some of the strongest nights in the state, Cedar Point shapes summer near Sandusky, and major hospitals support weekly stays. I price each city on its own calendar.
If you own homes across Ohio's big three, I build a separate plan for each city, then a shared view of your portfolio. We look at registration, event calendars, medical demand and how the homes are positioned, so each one earns on its own strengths instead of following one shared rule.
The service in general is described on my hotel revenue management consulting page; this page covers how I apply it in Columbus.
A review of the last 12 to 24 months: pricing decisions, rate architecture, restrictions, channel mix and cost, comp-set position, pace and the systems behind them, with every gap ranked by value.
Base rates and floors per room type, BAR levels tied to occupancy and pace, seasonal and event calendars and restrictions, written as a 12-month calendar your team can run.
Which channels to sell on, at what rate and with which promotions, so the mix protects margin: OTAs, corporate, wholesale, metasearch and direct.
A demand forecast, an annual budget, weekly pace reports and a workshop for your team, plus honest advice on revenue systems before you sign for one.
“Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati are three event-driven cities with medical and university demand. Ohio State football weekends in Columbus are some of the strongest nights in the state, Cedar Point shapes summer near Sandusky, and major hospitals support weekly stays. I price each city on its own calendar.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Hospital and corporate stays carry these months, so I lean on weekly and monthly pricing and accept softer weekends rather than chasing leisure guests who rarely come in an Ohio winter.
The Arnold Sports Festival fills Columbus for a long weekend, and March basketball tournaments add dates; I price those individually while leaving Cleveland and Cincinnati on winter floors.
Commencements, the Memorial Tournament in Dublin and early concert season lift weekends, so I raise those dates and keep minimums at two nights for event travellers.
Summer concerts and baseball in all three cities, plus Cedar Point near Sandusky, keep weekends full; I watch weekday pricing more closely than weekends during these months.
Football Saturdays drive the season, so I set each home game date separately, with the biggest rivalry and night games highest, and lift Cincinnati and Cleveland dates around NFL home games.
Holiday visitors and bowl game travel give some weekends a lift, but I keep weekday floors modest and use longer-stay discounts to cover the quiet stretch before New Year.
Price Ohio State home football weekends as top premiums in Columbus.
Add Browns, Bengals and Guardians home dates for nearby homes.
Build weekly rates near the Cleveland Clinic and other medical centers.
Price Cedar Point season from May to October for homes near Sandusky.
Lower January and February floors.
Performance has flattened
RevPAR is stuck while the market around you moves on.
Opening, renovating or rebranding
A new positioning needs a pricing and distribution strategy built from scratch.
An owner wants a second opinion
You need the operator's numbers checked by someone outside the hotel.
You have a team but want a better plan
Someone prices today and wants an audit, a calendar and training.
Thirty minutes on your property, your market and where you think revenue leaks. I scope the work and confirm the price before starting.
With read-only access to your PMS, channel manager and extranets I analyse the data, shop your comp set and talk to whoever sets rates today.
A written report and a working session: the gaps ranked by value, the strategy to close them and a 12-month calendar.
Step 4
I can set the strategy up in your systems, train your team and check in monthly, or run it for you as outsourced management.
Every engagement is fixed-scope and fixed-price. After a free discovery call you get the scope and the price in writing before any work starts. Training days and monthly check-ins are quoted separately.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Audit and roadmap | Audit, ranked gap report, strategy and 12-month calendar | Fixed fee, quoted |
| Implementation support | Setup in your systems and team training | Quoted |
| Monthly check-ins | Optional review sessions after delivery | 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 hotel revenue management consulting, that is where my audit begins, because a finding here changes every recommendation after it. How close the home really is to the stadium, arena or hospital it markets, because guests in these cities judge a listing by walk or drive time to one destination.
Busiest in Columbus: Ohio State and Bengals game weekends, summer concerts, and Cedar Point season from May to October. September to November: Football Saturdays drive the season, so I set each home game date separately, with the biggest rivalry and night games highest, and lift Cincinnati and Cleveland dates around NFL home games. April to June: Commencements, the Memorial Tournament in Dublin and early concert season lift weekends, so I raise those dates and keep minimums at two nights for event travellers. For hotel revenue management consulting, my audit tests whether your current rates and restrictions capture these windows, and the 12-month calendar I hand over sets them in advance.
Game-day premiums, medical-stay weekly rates, and winter floors. For hotel revenue management consulting, I check every recommendation against the Columbus calendar before I make it. July to August: Summer concerts and baseball in all three cities, plus Cedar Point near Sandusky, keep weekends full; I watch weekday pricing more closely than weekends during these months.
Ohio State football weekends in Columbus are some of the strongest nights in the state, Cedar Point shapes summer near Sandusky, and major hospitals support weekly stays. I price each city on its own calendar. That is the view I bring to hotel revenue management consulting in Columbus.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In Columbus the first gains from hotel revenue management consulting usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: add Browns, Bengals and Guardians home dates for nearby homes. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
Columbus sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. March: The Arnold Sports Festival fills Columbus for a long weekend, and March basketball tournaments add dates; I price those individually while leaving Cleveland and Cincinnati on winter floors. For hotel revenue management consulting in Columbus, my distribution review covers each channel's cost, contribution and rate position, then recommends a mix.
For hotel revenue management consulting, i begin with 12 to 24 months of your own data, so the first findings are about your property in Columbus, not the city. Build weekly rates near the Cleveland Clinic and other medical centers. Next: lower January and February floors.
Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati: Historic and walkable to the riverfront stadiums and FC Cincinnati; I price event nights carefully and use midweek rates for corporate and medical guests from out of town. Short North and German Village, Columbus and Ohio City and Tremont, Cleveland get their own treatment. For hotel revenue management consulting, i review your comp set and rate position for your own part of Columbus, not the market average.
For hotel revenue management consulting, consulting gives you an independent view and a plan your own team can run, without handing the daily decisions to anyone. I have optimized 100+ properties in and around Columbus and work remotely in Eastern Time (UTC-5). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: build weekly rates near the Cleveland Clinic and other medical centers.
Hotel revenue management consulting is a fixed-scope, fixed-price engagement quoted after a free discovery call, based on room count, room types, channels and scope. An audit with a strategy roadmap is a single project fee, usually delivered in four to eight weeks. The scope of hotel revenue management consulting is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in Columbus I would start from September to November: Football Saturdays drive the season, so I set each home game date separately, with the biggest rivalry and night games highest, and lift Cincinnati and Cleveland dates around NFL home games. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Columbus.
Yes. Hotel Revenue Management Consultant in Columbus is delivered remotely and scheduled in Eastern Time (UTC-5), and 100+ properties in and around Columbus have been optimized, including in areas such as Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati. The engagement is remote and fixed-scope, with calls in your time zone and a written report your team can run. Start in the chat or by email and tell me what you run in Columbus.
The other services I offer in Columbus, 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 Columbus, or read the general page for hotel revenue management consulting.
If you also run properties outside Columbus, 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 Columbus and what you need. I reply in Eastern Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
