Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Zagreb 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 Zagreb, Croatia, one to one, remotely and in Central European Time (UTC+1). In Zagreb, I price July to August as the peak and January to March 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 Zagreb
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 Zagreb: Rovinj, Poreč and Pula coastal season; Advent in Zagreb; Truffle and wine tourism; Motovun and Outlook festivals. Guests I price for: German, Austrian and Italian families on weekly coastal stays, city-breakers in Zagreb. Where I start: Weekly coastal pricing, Advent premiums in Zagreb, and off-season floors.
For hotels in Zagreb and Istria I draw on my five-star background to balance tour operator and family demand on the coast, corporate rates in Zagreb, and event fences around Advent and film festivals, with comps chosen town by town rather than across the whole region.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Zagreb.
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.
“Zagreb and Istria are two markets. Istria's coast sells weekly summer stays to German, Austrian and Italian families, and truffle season adds autumn. Zagreb is a city break with one of Europe's best Advent markets. I price the coast by the week and Zagreb around Advent.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Istria is very quiet and Zagreb sees business visitors. I keep coastal homes at low floors or closed and price Zagreb for weekday business and short weekends.
Spring visitors arrive in Istria and INmusic lifts Zagreb in June. I price long weekends and Easter higher on the coast and lift the festival dates in the city.
German, Austrian and Italian holiday weeks fill the coast and the Pula and Motovun film festivals add events. I price coastal homes by the week with firm minimums.
White truffle season brings food travellers to inland Istria. I price hill-town homes for weekends around truffle fairs and lower coastal rates gradually.
Advent in Zagreb draws visitors from across the region. I price December weekends highest and keep weekday rates firm for business and short breaks.
Run Istrian coastal homes on weekly summer stays.
Price Zagreb Advent weekends as premiums.
Add truffle season in October for inland Istria.
Price Rovinj, Poreč and Pula separately.
Set coastal off-season 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 Zagreb: June to September on the Istrian coast, Advent in Zagreb, and truffle season in October. July to August: German, Austrian and Italian holiday weeks fill the coast and the Pula and Motovun film festivals add events. I price coastal homes by the week with firm minimums. Late November to early January: Advent in Zagreb draws visitors from across the region. I price December weekends highest and keep weekday rates firm for business and short breaks. 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 coastal listing shows the walk to the sea and parking, since families driving from Germany and Austria choose by easy access and a space for the car.
Add truffle season in October for inland Istria. Next: set coastal off-season floors. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Zagreb 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 Zagreb: November to March on the coast. January to March: Istria is very quiet and Zagreb sees business visitors. I keep coastal homes at low floors or closed and price Zagreb for weekday business and short weekends. April to June: Spring visitors arrive in Istria and INmusic lifts Zagreb in June. I price long weekends and Easter higher on the coast and lift the festival dates in the city.
Advent ignored and short stays in peak coastal summer. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Zagreb, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in Zagreb, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Zagreb sells mostly through Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo. April to June: Spring visitors arrive in Istria and INmusic lifts Zagreb in June. I price long weekends and Easter higher on the coast and lift the festival dates in the city.
Rovinj and Poreč: Pretty coastal towns with strong family weeks. I price summer weeks high and use Easter and long weekends to extend the season. Motovun and the Istrian hill towns and Zagreb Upper and Lower Town 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.
Motovun and Outlook festivals, Rovinj, Poreč and Pula coastal season and Advent in Zagreb are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Zagreb. Late November to early January: Advent in Zagreb draws visitors from across the region. I price December weekends highest and keep weekday rates firm for business and short breaks.
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 Zagreb and work remotely in Central European Time (UTC+1). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: price Zagreb Advent weekends as premiums.
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 Zagreb I would start from July to August: German, Austrian and Italian holiday weeks fill the coast and the Pula and Motovun film festivals add events. I price coastal homes by the week with firm minimums. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Zagreb.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in Zagreb is delivered remotely and scheduled in Central European Time (UTC+1), and 100+ properties in and around Zagreb have been optimized, including in areas such as Motovun and the Istrian hill towns. 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 Zagreb.
The other services I offer in Zagreb, 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 Zagreb, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside Zagreb, 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 Zagreb and what you need. I reply in Central European Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
