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 State College, one to one, remotely and in Eastern Time (UTC-5), 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 State College, United States, one to one, remotely and in Eastern Time (UTC-5). In State College, I price September to November as the peak and January to February and December 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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Properties optimized in and around State College
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Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
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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 State College: Penn State home football at Beaver Stadium; Commencement and move-in weekends; THON, the record-setting dance marathon; The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts. Guests I price for: Penn State alumni and visiting parents on 2 to 3 night stays for game weekends and graduations across State College and College Township. Where I start: Game-day surge pricing with two-night football minimums, commencement premiums, and calendar management around a schedule of a handful of huge weekends.
State College sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. Hotels around Penn State live on a few sell-out weekends and a long tail of university business. With my five-star hotel background I help set football and graduation rate fences, multi-night restrictions, university and sports-team group pricing, and a comp set that reflects distance to campus and the stadium.
The service in general is described on my expedia optimization page; this page covers how I apply it in State College.
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.
“State College is a handful of enormous weekends and a lot of quiet time. Penn State home football Saturdays, especially big rivalry games, and May commencement can earn a large share of the year. THON in February adds a winter spike. I price those dates early and aggressively, and keep the rest simple.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Outside THON weekend the town is quiet, so I hold a modest floor, allow single nights for visiting faculty and recruiters, and avoid deep discounts that would not create demand anyway.
The Blue-White spring game, admitted-student visits and commencement build steadily; I price graduation weekend from the moment the university confirms the dates and use a two-night minimum.
Arts Fest in July is the summer highlight, along with orientation and youth sports camps; I lift that week and keep the rest priced for short visits and summer conferences.
Every home football Saturday gets its own price based on opponent and kickoff time, with the White Out and top rivalry games at the very top of the year.
Winter commencement brings a smaller spike early in the month; I price that weekend modestly and then let floors settle until the spring semester returns.
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.
Price Penn State home football weekends, with rivalry games highest, as soon as the schedule is out.
Use 2-night minimums on game weekends.
Price commencement and move-in weekends as premiums.
Add THON weekend in February.
Lower January and summer 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 State College, i optimize Expedia alongside your other channels and check parity, so added reach never creates a conflict. State College sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. December: Winter commencement brings a smaller spike early in the month; I price that weekend modestly and then let floors settle until the spring semester returns.
Busiest in State College: September to November for Penn State home-football Saturdays and May commencement, spiking hardest on the biggest rivalry games. March to May: The Blue-White spring game, admitted-student visits and commencement build steadily; I price graduation weekend from the moment the university confirms the dates and use a two-night minimum. September to November: Every home football Saturday gets its own price based on opponent and kickoff time, with the White Out and top rivalry games at the very top of the year. 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 State College. Penn State alumni and visiting parents on 2 to 3 night stays for game weekends and graduations across State College and College Township. Demand is driven by Commencement and move-in weekends and THON, the record-setting dance marathon.
Downtown State College: Walkable to campus and College Avenue, so I price game weekends and graduation highest here and accept short weekday stays for campus visitors. College Township and Lemont and Boalsburg and Bellefonte get their own treatment. For Expedia optimization for hotels, i write location content, photos and amenity highlights on Expedia around the specific part of State College 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 State College traveler clicks. Price commencement and move-in weekends as premiums. Next: lower January and summer floors.
Whether the football schedule was loaded with opponent-specific prices or one flat game rate, because a non-conference September game and a White Out weekend are very different nights. 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 State College, this is how I would approach it. With my five-star hotel background I help set football and graduation rate fences, multi-night restrictions, university and sports-team group pricing, and a comp set that reflects distance to campus and the stadium. Hotels around Penn State live on a few sell-out weekends and a long tail of university business. 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 State College and work remotely in Eastern Time (UTC-5). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: add THON weekend in February.
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 State College I would start from March to May: The Blue-White spring game, admitted-student visits and commencement build steadily; I price graduation weekend from the moment the university confirms the dates and use a two-night minimum. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in State College.
Yes. Expedia Optimization Expert for Hotels in State College is delivered remotely and scheduled in Eastern Time (UTC-5), and 100+ properties in and around State College have been optimized, including in areas such as Downtown State College. 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 State College.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In State College the first gains from Expedia optimization for hotels usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: lower January and summer floors. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
The other services I offer in State College, 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 State College, or read the general page for expedia optimization.
If you also run properties outside State College, 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 State College and what you need. I reply in Eastern Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
