Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for State College 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 Eastern Time (UTC-5).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides outsourced hotel revenue management 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. 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 State College
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Eastern 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 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.
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 outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in State College.
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.
“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.
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.
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 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 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 it is from Beaver Stadium and whether parking is available, since game-day guests pay noticeably more when they can walk or park without a shuttle.
Price commencement and move-in weekends as premiums. Next: lower January and summer floors. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a State College 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 State College: January and mid-summer, between the academic-year events. January to February: 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. June to August: 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.
Single-night game bookings and commencement released late. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in State College, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in State College, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. State College sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. 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.
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 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 Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, Penn State home football at Beaver Stadium and Commencement and move-in weekends are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in State College. 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.
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 State College and work remotely in Eastern Time (UTC-5). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: use 2-night minimums on game weekends.
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 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. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager 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 College Township and Lemont. 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 State College.
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 outsourced revenue management.
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.
