Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Svalbard 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 Svalbard, Norway, one to one, remotely and in Central European Time (UTC+1). In Svalbard, I price March to May as the peak and November to January 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 Svalbard
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 Svalbard: Snowmobile and dog-sled expeditions; Midnight sun and wildlife cruises; Research and university (UNIS) travel; Polar bear and Arctic nature tourism. Guests I price for: Expedition travellers on 3 to 5 night stays, researchers and cruise passengers. Where I start: Limited supply priced by season, expedition-package positioning and Longyearbyen's very limited lodging supply.
For Svalbard hotels and guesthouses I work on allotments with expedition operators, release dates, and rates for researchers and longer stays. With experience from years in hotel revenue management, I help decide how much of a small inventory should go to contracts, how much to direct sale, and how to price the dark season.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Svalbard.
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.
Running revenue for a Longyearbyen hotel means managing a small inventory across extreme seasons. I watch spring snowmobile demand, summer cruise schedules and flight capacity from Oslo and Tromsø, then decide how many rooms go to expedition operators and how many stay on public sale. In polar night my attention turns to aurora seekers, festival dates and keeping rates sensible rather than desperate.
My first step is reviewing last spring's bookings by source, to see whether operator allotments blocked public sale in the best weeks of March and April.
Polar night brings a smaller flow of aurora seekers and curious travellers; I hold sensible floors, sell two-night stays, and price Christmas and New Year for the few guests who seek out the dark season.
Light returns slowly and the Polarjazz festival around late January and early February brings music visitors; I raise rates for those dates and start to tighten minimum stays.
Close to shops, restaurants and tour pick-ups, which matters when guests have no car, so I price this as the base for most visitors in every season.
My full Svalbard calendar, areas, pricing moves and the mistakes I fix are on the revenue management consultant page for Svalbard.
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. Prices below are for a hotel of up to 20 rooms; larger hotels move up the size bands on the hotel plans page. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hotel Pricing Strategy Setup | One-time, done first: market, comp set, room types and rates turned into your strategy | From $750 |
| Core | Managed pricing, run for you every day | From $650/mo |
| Plus | Pricing plus OTA, channel and segment optimization | From $900/mo |
| Pro | Full revenue management with forecasting and a monthly strategy call | From $1,150/mo |
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 Svalbard: March to May for snowmobile and northern lights trips, and June to August for the midnight sun and cruises. March to May: Snowmobile trips, dog sledding and daylight make this the year's strongest season; I price highest here, protect three-night stays, and release tour-operator allotments in good time if unsold. June to August: The midnight sun, boat trips and expedition cruises keep demand steady, with cruise departures and changeovers shaping the busiest nights; I price around those dates rather than an even summer rate. 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 many nights come through tour operators and expedition companies, and on what terms, since generous allotments can quietly block the strongest spring nights from public sale.
Use 3-night minimums in peak seasons to match typical trip length. Next: set realistic polar night floors for aurora and dark-season visitors. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Svalbard 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 Svalbard: November to January polar night. November to January: Polar night brings a smaller flow of aurora seekers and curious travellers; I hold sensible floors, sell two-night stays, and price Christmas and New Year for the few guests who seek out the dark season. February: Light returns slowly and the Polarjazz festival around late January and early February brings music visitors; I raise rates for those dates and start to tighten minimum stays.
Packages with tour operators that undercut public rates and short stays allowed in peak months when guests stay several nights anyway. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Svalbard, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in Svalbard, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Svalbard sells mostly through Booking.com, Expedia and expedition operators. February: Light returns slowly and the Polarjazz festival around late January and early February brings music visitors; I raise rates for those dates and start to tighten minimum stays.
Longyearbyen centre: Close to shops, restaurants and tour pick-ups, which matters when guests have no car, so I price this as the base for most visitors in every season. Nybyen and Near the airport and harbour 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.
Polar bear and Arctic nature tourism, Snowmobile and dog-sled expeditions and Midnight sun and wildlife cruises are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Svalbard. September to October: The light fades quickly, the first aurora nights return and the Dark Season Blues festival arrives in October, so I ease rates while keeping event nights firm.
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 Svalbard and work remotely in Central European Time (UTC+1). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: hold summer rates for midnight sun and expedition cruise guests.
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 Svalbard I would start from March to May: Snowmobile trips, dog sledding and daylight make this the year's strongest season; I price highest here, protect three-night stays, and release tour-operator allotments in good time if unsold. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Svalbard.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in Svalbard is delivered remotely and scheduled in Central European Time (UTC+1), and 100+ properties in and around Svalbard have been optimized, including in areas such as Nybyen. 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 Svalbard.
The other services I offer in Svalbard, 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 Svalbard, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside Svalbard, 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 Svalbard and what you need. I reply in Central European Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
