Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Riyadh 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 Arabia Standard Time (UTC+3).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides outsourced hotel revenue management 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 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 Riyadh
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Arabia 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 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.
Riyadh hotels are growing fast alongside new supply, giga-events and project travel. With a decade of five-star revenue management behind me, I help hotels build corporate rate structures, event fences and conference group pricing, and plan the quiet summer without weakening their rate position for the busy winter.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Riyadh.
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.
“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.
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 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 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. 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.
Set weekday business rates for project and government travel. Next: confirm the Ministry of Tourism licence. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Riyadh 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 Riyadh: June to August. 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. 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.
Major events priced like ordinary weeks and unlicensed listings. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Riyadh, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel 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. 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.
Olaya and Al Muruj: The central business spine near Kingdom Centre and the metro; I price weekdays for corporate guests and offer modest weekend discounts. Hittin and Al Malqa and Diriyah 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.
Business travel tied to Vision 2030 projects, Riyadh Season and LEAP and Future Investment Initiative are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Riyadh. 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.
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 Riyadh and work remotely in Arabia Standard Time (UTC+3). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: list on Gathern alongside Airbnb and Booking.com.
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 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. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager 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 Hittin and Al Malqa. 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 outsourced 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.
