Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for St. Moritz 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 Central European Time (UTC+1).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides outsourced hotel revenue management for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in St. Moritz, Switzerland, one to one, remotely and in Central European Time (UTC+1). In St. Moritz, I price Late December to early January and Mid-January to February as the peak and April to June and October to November 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 St. Moritz
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Central European 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 St. Moritz: White Turf horse racing on the frozen lake each February; snow polo and the historic Cresta Run toboggan track; the Engadin Skimarathon and the Corvatsch slopes each March; the Bernina Express and high-altitude Engadin summer hiking. Guests I price for: Affluent international skiers and long-stay chalet parties in winter, plus summer hikers and wellness guests around St. Moritz, Pontresina and Celerina. Where I start: Pricing a premium luxury market where winter and marquee events command the highest rates, sustaining a real summer season, and observing Lex Koller ownership limits and local tourist tax.
My career began in five-star hotels, which is the language of St. Moritz. For Engadin hotels I review the balance between direct, agency and event business, rate fences for marquee weekends, and how to sustain the summer season without weakening winter rates.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in St. Moritz.
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.
“St. Moritz is a luxury winter market with marquee events: White Turf on the frozen lake in February, snow polo and the Engadin Skimarathon. Affluent guests book long chalet stays, and summer is a real second season. Pricing has to match the luxury positioning.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
The holiday fortnight sells first and at the highest rate. I hold weekly stays for chalets and stop any discounting, even if dates look open in early December.
Snow Polo, the Gourmet Festival and the three White Turf Sundays keep weekends strong; I price each event weekend individually and keep midweek nights firm for longer ski stays.
The Engadin Skimarathon weekend and spring skiing on Corvatsch bring long stays. I price the marathon weekend above the rest of March and ease rates after Easter.
Many hotels and shops close, so I keep a dignified floor, accept longer stays and avoid heavy discounts that clash with luxury positioning.
Hiking, kitesurfing at Silvaplana and the jazz festival make a real summer season. I sell weekly stays for families and price lake and mountain views well.
The valley shuts down, so I keep floors steady and focus on long stays and repeat guests rather than chasing short bookings.
Price White Turf and snow polo weekends as premiums.
Price Christmas to New Year as the top band.
Use long stays for chalets.
Build a summer hiking and wellness season.
Include local tourist tax.
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 St. Moritz: December to March for luxury skiing and the frozen-lake events, with a July and August alpine summer second season. Late December to early January: The holiday fortnight sells first and at the highest rate. I hold weekly stays for chalets and stop any discounting, even if dates look open in early December. Mid-January to February: Snow Polo, the Gourmet Festival and the three White Turf Sundays keep weekends strong; I price each event weekend individually and keep midweek nights firm for longer ski stays. 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 the listing presents service: ski room, transfers from Samedan airport and concierge help, since St. Moritz guests often value those more than an extra bedroom.
Use long stays for chalets. Next: include local tourist tax. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a St. Moritz 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 St. Moritz: May and November. October to November: The valley shuts down, so I keep floors steady and focus on long stays and repeat guests rather than chasing short bookings. April to June: Many hotels and shops close, so I keep a dignified floor, accept longer stays and avoid heavy discounts that clash with luxury positioning.
Events ignored and summer ignored. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in St. Moritz, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in St. Moritz, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. St. Moritz sells mostly through Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and Expedia. Late December to early January: The holiday fortnight sells first and at the highest rate. I hold weekly stays for chalets and stop any discounting, even if dates look open in early December.
St. Moritz Dorf: Close to the shops, Badrutt's Palace and the lake events, so I price event weekends highest here and hold firm holiday weekly stays. Pontresina and Celerina and Samedan 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.
the Bernina Express and high-altitude Engadin summer hiking, White Turf horse racing on the frozen lake each February and snow polo and the historic Cresta Run toboggan track are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in St. Moritz. April to June: Many hotels and shops close, so I keep a dignified floor, accept longer stays and avoid heavy discounts that clash with luxury positioning.
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 St. Moritz and work remotely in Central European Time (UTC+1). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: price Christmas to New Year as the top band.
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 St. Moritz I would start from March to Easter: The Engadin Skimarathon weekend and spring skiing on Corvatsch bring long stays. I price the marathon weekend above the rest of March and ease rates after Easter. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in St. Moritz.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in St. Moritz is delivered remotely and scheduled in Central European Time (UTC+1), and 100+ properties in and around St. Moritz have been optimized, including in areas such as Pontresina. 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 St. Moritz.
The other services I offer in St. Moritz, 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 St. Moritz, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside St. Moritz, 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 St. Moritz and what you need. I reply in Central European Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
