Win placement on Expedia Group, across Hotels.com and Orbitz too.I optimize your Partner Central setup once so Expedia, Hotels.com, Orbitz and the other group brands all benefit. I work with hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in São Paulo, one to one, remotely and in Brasília Time (UTC-3), and I have optimized 100+ properties in and around the market.
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides Expedia optimization for hotels for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in São Paulo, Brazil, one to one, remotely and in Brasília Time (UTC-3). In São Paulo, and January and July as the quiet time, and I build the work around that calendar. Expedia 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 São Paulo
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Brasília Time
Sessions scheduled in your local time
Expedia optimization for hotels is the work I do to make a property rank, convert and price correctly on Expedia. I optimize your Partner Central setup once so Expedia, Hotels.com, Orbitz and the other group brands all benefit.
What I plan around in São Paulo: Corporate and conference travel; São Paulo Grand Prix; Fashion Week and Bienal; Stadium concerts. Guests I price for: Business travellers midweek and event visitors at weekends. Where I start: Corporate midweek rate cards and event premiums.
São Paulo sells mostly through Airbnb and Booking.com. With my five-star chain experience I help São Paulo hotels and serviced apartments negotiate corporate accounts, forecast the trade-fair weeks and fence weekend leisure packages away from weekday business rates, so concerts and races lift revenue without eroding the corporate base.
The service in general is described on my expedia optimization page; this page covers how I apply it in São Paulo.
Expedia scores completeness and quality. I bring the content score up, write room descriptions that sell and align facts with your other channels.
I order the gallery for the search card and the property page, and flag the shots that are losing you clicks.
Expedia rewards competitive, well-structured rates. I set rate plans, member-only pricing and promotions, and judge whether Accelerator or TravelAds earns its cost.
Guest scores and response behaviour affect placement. I set up review requests and responses, and fix the operational causes behind low scores.
“São Paulo is Latin America's business capital. Weekdays are corporate, and weekends depend on events like the Grand Prix, Lollapalooza and big concerts. January and July are quieter as locals travel. The city is huge, so short travel times to business districts or event venues are often the deciding factor for guests and should be reflected in price. I keep weekend event pricing separate so corporate rates do not undersell concert and race weekends.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Paulistanos leave for the litoral and offices slow, so I lower floors, accept shorter stays and court tourists and relocating families on monthly terms.
Street Carnival now fills whole neighbourhoods and Lollapalooza takes over Interlagos, so I price those weekends as events and restore the corporate rate card the moment offices reopen.
Trade fairs at São Paulo Expo, Anhembi and Expo Center Norte fill weekdays, so I track the fair calendar and add a premium for any homes with easy access.
School holidays thin corporate travel, so I ease floors gently, open shorter leisure stays and keep a monthly offer ready for project workers.
This is the busiest business stretch, with Fashion Week, the Bienal in Ibirapuera and the Grand Prix at Interlagos in November. I hold weekday rates and lift event weeks.
Expedia sells your inventory across several brands, and most of them read the same Partner Central data. That is why I do the setup carefully once: a complete profile and a sound rate structure improve placement across the group, and the promotions you choose decide how much of that visibility you pay for.
Set weekday corporate rates.
Price the São Paulo Grand Prix and big concerts.
Offer monthly rates for relocations.
Price Jardins, Itaim and Pinheiros separately.
Lower January and July floors.
A new Expedia listing
You have just connected Expedia 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 Expedia.
Commission without much return
You pay Expedia commission and its share of bookings is small next to your other channels.
A portfolio with uneven quality
Some listings are polished on Expedia and others were never finished, and nobody owns the standard.
Send me the Expedia listing or property links and your channel manager. I check how the property ranks and reads today before we speak.
A scorecard for Expedia: content, photos, rates and promotions, policies and reviews, with every fix ranked by impact.
I make the changes live on Zoom in your Expedia 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 Expedia and adjust what the numbers say to adjust.
I quote Expedia 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 | Expedia optimization for one property | Quoted |
| Several properties | One scope and one price for a group on Expedia | 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 Expedia optimization for hotels in São Paulo, i optimize Expedia alongside your other channels and check parity, so added reach never creates a conflict. São Paulo sells mostly through Airbnb and Booking.com. August to December: This is the busiest business stretch, with Fashion Week, the Bienal in Ibirapuera and the Grand Prix at Interlagos in November. I hold weekday rates and lift event weeks.
Busiest in São Paulo: Business-travel weeks, Formula 1 in November, Carnival, and Lollapalooza Brazil in March. February to March: Street Carnival now fills whole neighbourhoods and Lollapalooza takes over Interlagos, so I price those weekends as events and restore the corporate rate card the moment offices reopen. August to December: This is the busiest business stretch, with Fashion Week, the Bienal in Ibirapuera and the Grand Prix at Interlagos in November. I hold weekday rates and lift event weeks. For Expedia optimization for hotels, on Expedia, I line up promotions, rate plans and content with these windows so visibility peaks when demand does.
For Expedia optimization for hotels, i write content and photo order on Expedia for the guests who actually search for São Paulo. Business travellers midweek and event visitors at weekends. Demand is driven by São Paulo Grand Prix and Fashion Week and Bienal.
Vila Madalena: Bars, street art and live music keep weekends lively, so I price Friday and Saturday above weekdays and target visitors from other Brazilian cities. Brooklin and Berrini and Avenida Paulista and Consolação get their own treatment. For Expedia optimization for hotels, i write location content, photos and amenity highlights on Expedia around the specific part of São Paulo the property is in.
For Expedia optimization for hotels, the first changes on Expedia are content completeness and the cover photo, because those decide whether a São Paulo traveler clicks. Offer monthly rates for relocations. Next: lower January and July floors.
How Saturdays are priced in a business-heavy unit, because I often find them sitting empty or cheap on weekends when a stadium concert could fill them. For Expedia optimization for hotels, i check this on Expedia first, because it decides whether the listing is allowed to rank at all.
For Expedia optimization for hotels in São Paulo, this is how I would approach it. With my five-star chain experience I help São Paulo hotels and serviced apartments negotiate corporate accounts, forecast the trade-fair weeks and fence weekend leisure packages away from weekday business rates, so concerts and races lift revenue without eroding the corporate base. We start in the chat, and I confirm the scope and the price before any work begins.
For Expedia 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 São Paulo and work remotely in Brasília Time (UTC-3). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: price Jardins, Itaim and Pinheiros separately.
Expedia optimization is quoted per property after a short chat, because the scope depends on the number of properties and room types. The scope of Expedia optimization for hotels is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in São Paulo I would start from February to March: Street Carnival now fills whole neighbourhoods and Lollapalooza takes over Interlagos, so I price those weekends as events and restore the corporate rate card the moment offices reopen. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in São Paulo.
Yes. Expedia Optimization Expert for Hotels in São Paulo is delivered remotely and scheduled in Brasília Time (UTC-3), and 100+ properties in and around São Paulo have been optimized, including in areas such as Vila Madalena. I implement it live on Zoom in your Expedia extranet or through your channel manager, in your time zone. Start in the chat or by email and tell me what you run in São Paulo.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In São Paulo the first gains from Expedia optimization for hotels usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: lower January and July floors. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
The other services I offer in São Paulo, 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 São Paulo, or read the general page for expedia optimization.
If you also run properties outside São Paulo, 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 São Paulo and what you need. I reply in Brasília Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
