Independent, fixed-scope revenue management consulting: a revenue audit, a pricing and distribution strategy your team can run, forecasts and RMS selection, and training. For independent hotels and resorts, and for Airbnb hosts and property managers, delivered remotely by Alaa Elhadi and his team, with 18 years in revenue management and a Cornell University certificate.
Revenue management is the discipline of selling the right room or listing to the right guest at the right time, through the right channel, at the right price. Revenue management consulting brings that discipline to a property that does not have it in-house, or has it and wants an independent check: Alaa and his team audit how you price, restrict, distribute and forecast today, quantify the gap against what the market would pay, and hand over the strategy, calendar, reports and training to close it.
Every engagement is fixed-scope and fixed-price, runs remotely in your time zone, and works the same way whether you run one Airbnb, a portfolio of vacation rentals or an independent hotel. What changes is the tools and channels, which is why the services below are split into short-term rentals and hotels.
A typical engagement covers
For Airbnb hosts, vacation-rental owners and property management companies, from a single listing to portfolios of hundreds.
A consultant reviews your listings, market and competitors and builds your base, seasonal, event, gap-night and last-minute pricing, minimum-stay and orphan-night rules, set up in PriceLabs, Wheelhouse or Revenuenaire Dynamic Pricing.
For hosts and property managers with more than one listing: a review of pricing, occupancy, ADR and RevPAR across the portfolio, with a prioritized plan to lift revenue and a monthly reporting rhythm.
Titles, photos, content and ranking on Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com, reviewed channel by channel so more of your visibility turns into booked nights at the right rate.
Prefer the team to run pricing day to day once the strategy is set? Managed revenue management on Core, Plus or Pro, priced monthly by listing count, month to month with no lock-in.
For independent hotels, boutique properties, resorts and serviced apartments, priced and distributed by room type.
A fixed-scope review of 12 to 24 months of pricing, restrictions, channel mix, comp-set positioning and pace, delivered as a written report of every revenue gap ranked by value, with the strategy and calendar to close it.
Rate architecture by room type, BAR and length-of-stay rules, restrictions and rate parity, and a distribution plan across Booking.com, Expedia, GDS, wholesalers and your direct channel.
Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, Trip.com and Google, each optimized on its own ranking rules and kept in parity through your channel manager, so you win the right demand at the right cost.
Prefer the team to run it day to day? Outsourced revenue management for hotels and resorts on a monthly retainer, or done-for-you managed plans priced by your hotel's size.
The situations where, in my experience, an outside review earns back its fee fastest, for hotels and rental portfolios alike.
When every peak date sells and revenue barely moves, the rate is usually being given away early in the booking window.
Seasons, weekday gaps and discounts that were set once and copied forward every year, whatever the market did.
A growing share of nights through the OTAs, and no one has looked at what each channel leaves you after its cut.
An RMS or pricing tool was switched on at launch and nobody has tuned its rules to your property since.
Next year's budget is this year plus a percentage, with no weekly pace view to tell you early when it is slipping.
A new property, more units, a rebrand or a new manager. The cheapest time to set the strategy right is before it starts.
Three different jobs. Most of my clients use two of them at some point.
| Consultant | Pricing software or RMS | Outsourced team | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The job | Diagnose, write the strategy, train your team | Apply the rules every day | Make the daily decisions for you |
| Daily decisions | Your team | Your team, through the tool | My team |
| Right when | You want to own the strategy | You already have a strategy | You want it off your plate |
| Commitment | Fixed scope, fixed price | Monthly subscription | Month to month, no lock-in |
From a short scoping chat to a strategy your team can run, in four to eight weeks.
Alaa learns your property, market and goals, agrees the scope and a fixed price, and gets read-only access to your systems.
The team reviews your pricing, restrictions, channel mix and forecast, shops your comp set and quantifies every revenue gap.
You get a written pricing, distribution and forecasting strategy with a 12-month calendar, set up in your tools.
Alaa trains your team to run it, with optional monthly check-ins, or moves you onto managed revenue management.
Revenue management consulting is an independent, fixed-scope engagement in which an experienced revenue manager audits how a property prices, restricts, distributes and forecasts its rooms or listings, quantifies the gap against what the market would pay, and delivers the strategy, tools and training to earn more from the same inventory. It applies to both independent hotels and short-term rentals such as Airbnb and Vrbo.
A revenue management consultant reviews your performance and decision data, shops your competitive set, analyses channel mix and net revenue after commission, and interviews the people who set rates. They then write the pricing architecture, restriction rules, distribution strategy, forecast and calendar the property should run, and often set it up in your systems and train the team to keep it going.
Yes. Alaa and his team consult for independent hotels, boutique properties, resorts and serviced apartments, and for Airbnb hosts, vacation-rental owners and property management companies. The method is the same; the tools and channels differ. The sections above break down the specific services for each.
Engagements are quoted after a short scoping chat, based on the size and complexity of the property or portfolio, the number of room types or listings and channels, and the scope you choose. A revenue audit with a strategy roadmap is a fixed project fee; training and monthly check-ins are priced separately.
Yes. Every engagement is remote, scheduled in your time zone, with read-only access to your PMS, channel manager or pricing tool and working sessions on Zoom. Alaa has worked with hosts and hotels in more than 150 locations this way.
No. Many clients come before choosing a system, and tool selection is part of the scope. A strategy can be run from a PMS and a channel manager alone; a pricing tool then automates it once the strategy exists.
Consulting is a fixed-scope engagement where the team builds the strategy and your team makes the daily decisions. Managed (or outsourced) revenue management is ongoing: Alaa's team makes the daily pricing, restriction and distribution decisions for you on a monthly plan. Many clients start with consulting and move into managed once the strategy is proven.
Consulting fixes the strategy once. Outsourced revenue management runs it every day: a dedicated revenue manager prices your hotel or short-term rentals, manages distribution and reports monthly, month to month with no lock-in.
Tell Alaa's team what you run, your channels and what changed, and you get an answer in the chat and a scoped engagement to follow.
Instant answers from the assistant, a revenue manager follows up in the same chat.
