Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Traverse City 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 Traverse City, United States, one to one, remotely and in Eastern Time (UTC-5). In Traverse City, I price Early July (Cherry Festival) and Mid-July to August as the peak and January to March and November to 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 Traverse City
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 Traverse City: National Cherry Festival; Sleeping Bear Dunes and wine trails; Mackinac Island travel; Boyne and Crystal Mountain ski weekends. Guests I price for: Midwestern families on weekly summer stays, couples on wine weekends. Where I start: Summer weekly pricing with festival premiums, foliage weekends, and off-season floors.
Traverse City hotels and resorts compete for summer families, festival visitors and wine-country couples. With my five-star hotel background I help set event-week restrictions, wedding and group blocks, wine-country packages, and a comp set chosen by bay frontage and town location.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Traverse City.
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.
“Traverse City and Northern Michigan are summer family markets with a strong autumn. The National Cherry Festival in early July is the top week, and Sleeping Bear Dunes and wine trails keep summer busy. October colour tours bring couples. Local township rules vary, so I check them before listing.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Ski weekends near Crystal Mountain and Boyne carry homes close to the slopes; in town I keep floors modest and welcome monthly stays for remote workers and visiting professionals.
Morel hunting, early wine-trail weekends and graduations bring short trips; I allow two-night weekends and start pricing Cherry Festival and July weeks firmly.
The festival brings the biggest crowds of the year to the bay; I price that week highest, prefer full-week bookings and avoid opening single nights.
Interlochen summer arts programmes, Sleeping Bear Dunes trips and lake holidays keep demand high; I run weekly stays for families and keep weekend prices strong for couples.
Harvest and colour tours on Old Mission and Leelanau draw couples and small groups; I price October weekends above September and keep midweek rates attractive for retirees.
Outside Thanksgiving and holiday weeks I lower floors, allow short stays and focus on reliable longer bookings that cover the quiet weeks before ski season.
Price Cherry Festival week as the top band with longer stays.
Run July and August on weekly or long-weekend stays.
Price October colour weekends as a premium.
Add ski weekends near Boyne and Crystal Mountain in winter.
Check local township rules before listing.
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 Traverse City: July to August, the Cherry Festival in early July, and October colour tours. Early July (Cherry Festival): The festival brings the biggest crowds of the year to the bay; I price that week highest, prefer full-week bookings and avoid opening single nights. Mid-July to August: Interlochen summer arts programmes, Sleeping Bear Dunes trips and lake holidays keep demand high; I run weekly stays for families and keep weekend prices strong for couples. 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. Whether the listing is on the water, near the bay or close to wine trails, since each location draws a different guest and supports a different price.
Price October colour weekends as a premium. Next: check local township rules before listing. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Traverse City 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 Traverse City: November to April outside ski weekends. January to March: Ski weekends near Crystal Mountain and Boyne carry homes close to the slopes; in town I keep floors modest and welcome monthly stays for remote workers and visiting professionals. April to June: Morel hunting, early wine-trail weekends and graduations bring short trips; I allow two-night weekends and start pricing Cherry Festival and July weeks firmly.
Autumn treated as low season and winter ski demand ignored for nearby homes. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Traverse City, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in Traverse City, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Traverse City sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. January to March: Ski weekends near Crystal Mountain and Boyne carry homes close to the slopes; in town I keep floors modest and welcome monthly stays for remote workers and visiting professionals.
Downtown Traverse City and the Bay: Walkable to Front Street and the beaches, so I price Cherry Festival highest here and sell weekly summer stays to families. Old Mission Peninsula and Leelanau and Glen Arbor 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.
Boyne and Crystal Mountain ski weekends, National Cherry Festival and Sleeping Bear Dunes and wine trails are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Traverse City. Mid-July to August: Interlochen summer arts programmes, Sleeping Bear Dunes trips and lake holidays keep demand high; I run weekly stays for families and keep weekend prices strong for couples.
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 Traverse City and work remotely in Eastern Time (UTC-5). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: run July and August on weekly or long-weekend stays.
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 Traverse City I would start from mid-July to August: Interlochen summer arts programmes, Sleeping Bear Dunes trips and lake holidays keep demand high; I run weekly stays for families and keep weekend prices strong for couples. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Traverse City.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in Traverse City is delivered remotely and scheduled in Eastern Time (UTC-5), and 100+ properties in and around Traverse City have been optimized, including in areas such as Old Mission Peninsula. 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 Traverse City.
The other services I offer in Traverse City, 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 Traverse City, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside Traverse City, 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 Traverse City and what you need. I reply in Eastern Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
