An independent look at your hotel's revenue, and a plan you can run.I audit how your Riyadh 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 Arabia Standard Time (UTC+3), usually four to eight weeks.
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides hotel revenue management consulting for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments 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. 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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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
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 Riyadh. 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.
For Riyadh owners I review licensing, guest mix and exposure to events first. Then we decide whether your property should lean towards business weekdays, event spikes or monthly project guests. I give you a clear rate plan with the full events calendar loaded and a summer strategy that protects income when the city empties.
The service in general is described on my hotel revenue management consulting page; this page covers how I apply it in Riyadh.
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.
“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.
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 far the home is from KAFD, the Boulevard, Diriyah and the airport, because Riyadh is spread out and guests choose by drive time in traffic rather than by district name.
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 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.
Event-calendar pricing, business midweek strategies, and licensed short-stay positioning under Ministry of Tourism rules. For hotel revenue management consulting, I check every recommendation against the Riyadh calendar before I make it. April to May: 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.
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. That is the view I bring to hotel revenue management consulting in Riyadh.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In Riyadh the first gains from hotel revenue management consulting usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: list on Gathern alongside Airbnb and Booking.com. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
Riyadh sells mostly through Airbnb, Booking.com, Gathern and Expedia. 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 hotel revenue management consulting in Riyadh, 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 Riyadh, not the city. Set weekday business rates for project and government travel. Next: confirm the Ministry of Tourism licence.
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 hotel revenue management consulting, i review your comp set and rate position for your own part of Riyadh, 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 Riyadh and work remotely in Arabia Standard Time (UTC+3). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: set weekday business rates for project and government travel.
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 Riyadh I would start from 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. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Riyadh.
Yes. Hotel 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 Diriyah. 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 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 hotel revenue management consulting.
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.
