I run the pricing, you keep the property.I price every night of your Riyadh listings, set the stay rules, manage the channels and send you a monthly report, with plans from $225 a month for one listing. Month to month, remote in Arabia Standard Time (UTC+3).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides Airbnb revenue management for Airbnb hosts, vacation rental owners and property managers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, one to one, remotely and in Arabia Standard Time (UTC+3). In Riyadh, I price October to December as the peak and June to September as the quiet time, and I build the work around that calendar. Airbnb revenue management is priced monthly by listing count, from $225 a month for one listing and $325 for two, with Plus at 35 percent more and Pro at 75 percent more than Core. It runs month to month and is never a percentage of revenue.
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100+
Properties optimized in and around Riyadh
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Arabia Standard Time
Sessions scheduled in your local time
Airbnb revenue management is the ongoing work of pricing every night, setting stay rules, managing channels and reporting results. It goes further than a pricing tool: I review the strategy as demand, events and your own pace change, and I explain every change I make.
What I plan around in Riyadh: Riyadh Season; LEAP and Future Investment Initiative; Formula E and Riyadh Comedy Festival; Business travel tied to Vision 2030 projects. Guests I price for: Domestic and GCC business travellers, event visitors and families, often booking 2 to 5 nights. Where I start: Event-calendar pricing, business midweek strategies, and licensed short-stay positioning under Ministry of Tourism rules.
I set up Gathern, Airbnb, Booking.com and Expedia so weekends, events and monthly stays work the same across channels. In PriceLabs or Wheelhouse I configure the Saudi weekend, Hijri holidays and event overrides for Riyadh Season, LEAP and FII, because the tools need local rules to price this city properly.
The service in general is described on my airbnb revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Riyadh.
I review demand and pace and make two or three price changes a week where the market calls for them, inside the tool you already use.
On Plus I also optimize listings, plan promotions, track competitor rates per listing and manage Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo together.
A monthly summary on every plan and a full ADR, occupancy and RevPAR report on Plus and Pro, so you see what changed and why.
On Pro I forecast demand, keep a 12-month pricing calendar, meet you monthly and review quarterly, and I set launch prices for new listings.
“Riyadh is a new short-term rental market growing fast under Vision 2030. Riyadh Season, LEAP and the Future Investment Initiative create huge spikes, and business travel fills weekdays. Licensing through the Ministry of Tourism is required, and local platforms like Gathern matter as much as the global ones.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Riyadh Season opens while FII and Cityscape bring business crowds, so I raise rates near Boulevard City and KAFD and price each conference week as its own premium.
Formula E in Diriyah and LEAP keep demand strong, so I load event dates early, set two-night minimums on the key nights and keep weekday business rates firm.
Business travel slows during Ramadan, so I ease weekday prices, then lift the Eid holiday as families travel and the city fills with visitors again.
Heat builds and events thin out, so I target project contractors and relocating families with weekly and monthly rates while keeping weekend nightly prices stable.
Many residents travel abroad, so I lower floors carefully, offer monthly stays and keep a premium only on event dates that still bring visitors into the city.
Load Riyadh Season, LEAP and FII dates and price each as a premium.
List on Gathern alongside Airbnb and Booking.com.
Set weekday business rates for project and government travel.
Move Ramadan and Eid dates each year.
Confirm the Ministry of Tourism licence.
One listing and no time
You want pricing handled properly without checking the calendar every day.
A growing portfolio
You manage several listings and need one consistent, scalable method.
A property manager
You want owner-ready reporting and revenue leadership without an in-house hire.
Smart Pricing is not enough
Airbnb's own tool optimizes for Airbnb's fill rate, not your revenue across channels.
Send the listing links, your pricing tool and your goals. I confirm the plan level and the monthly price for your listing count.
I build the base, minimum and maximum prices, seasons, events and stay rules for your market before the first month starts.
I watch demand and pace and move prices and restrictions as the market does.
Step 4
You get the monthly report, and on Pro we meet, and I adjust the plan from the results.
Priced monthly by listing count on a graduated curve, so there are no tier cliffs. Plus adds 35 percent and Pro 75 percent to the Core price. Never a percentage of revenue.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Core | Managed pricing, run for you every day | From $225/mo |
| Plus | Pricing plus listing and channel optimization | Core +35% |
| Pro | Full revenue management with a monthly strategy call | Core +75% |
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 Riyadh: October to March, with Riyadh Season, LEAP and other giga-events driving spikes. October to December: Riyadh Season opens while FII and Cityscape bring business crowds, so I raise rates near Boulevard City and KAFD and price each conference week as its own premium. January to March: Formula E in Diriyah and LEAP keep demand strong, so I load event dates early, set two-night minimums on the key nights and keep weekday business rates firm. For Airbnb 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 Airbnb revenue management, that is the first thing I check before taking on the pricing, because everything else sits on top of it. Whether weekend pricing follows the Friday and Saturday weekend and treats Thursday night as leisure, because default tools often apply a Western weekend that is wrong for Saudi travel.
Load Riyadh Season, LEAP and FII dates and price each as a premium. Next: set weekday business rates for project and government travel. For Airbnb revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Riyadh property usually leaks the most.
For Airbnb 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 Riyadh: June to August. June to September: Many residents travel abroad, so I lower floors carefully, offer monthly stays and keep a premium only on event dates that still bring visitors into the city. Ramadan and Eid: Business travel slows during Ramadan, so I ease weekday prices, then lift the Eid holiday as families travel and the city fills with visitors again.
Local channels ignored and major events priced like ordinary weeks. I look for these first when I review Airbnb revenue management in Riyadh, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For Airbnb revenue management in Riyadh, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Riyadh sells mostly through Airbnb, Booking.com, Gathern and Expedia. June to September: Many residents travel abroad, so I lower floors carefully, offer monthly stays and keep a premium only on event dates that still bring visitors into the city.
Diriyah: The historic area with Bujairi Terrace and the Formula E race; I price premium stays around events and cultural tourism and keep it apart from city-centre comps. Olaya and Al Muruj and Hittin and Al Malqa get their own treatment. For Airbnb revenue management, i set rates, comp sets and restrictions per area and per room or listing type, not as one citywide number.
Business travel tied to Vision 2030 projects, Riyadh Season and LEAP and Future Investment Initiative are the dates I price first for Airbnb revenue management in Riyadh. Ramadan and Eid: Business travel slows during Ramadan, so I ease weekday prices, then lift the Eid holiday as families travel and the city fills with visitors again.
For Airbnb 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 Riyadh and work remotely in Arabia Standard Time (UTC+3). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: confirm the Ministry of Tourism licence.
Airbnb revenue management is priced monthly by listing count, from $225 a month for one listing and $325 for two, with Plus at 35 percent more and Pro at 75 percent more than Core. It runs month to month and is never a percentage of revenue. The scope of Airbnb revenue management is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in Riyadh I would start from October to December: Riyadh Season opens while FII and Cityscape bring business crowds, so I raise rates near Boulevard City and KAFD and price each conference week as its own premium. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Riyadh.
Yes. Airbnb Revenue Management Consultant in Riyadh is delivered remotely and scheduled in Arabia Standard Time (UTC+3), and 100+ properties in and around Riyadh have been optimized, including in areas such as Olaya and Al Muruj. 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 Riyadh.
The other services I offer in Riyadh, 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 Riyadh, or read the general page for airbnb revenue management.
If you also run properties outside Riyadh, 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 Riyadh and what you need. I reply in Arabia Standard Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
