**AI Hotel Revenue Management System (Price Monitoring + Competitor Analysis + Dynamic Pricing)**

Job ID: 40579195

Budget: €250 – €750 EUR

## Project Overview

We are looking for an experienced software development team (or senior full-stack developer) to build a complete **Hotel Revenue Management System (RMS)** for our hostel group.

The system will monitor competitor prices, analyze market demand, predict occupancy, and recommend the best room prices using Artificial Intelligence.

Initially, the platform will manage approximately **6 hostels located in Spain**, with the possibility of expanding in the future.

The goal is to maximize occupancy and revenue by making pricing decisions based on real-time market data.

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# Main Features

## 1. Competitor Price Monitoring

The system must:

* Monitor prices from approximately **10 competitors for each hostel**.
* Collect room prices from:

* Booking.com
* Expedia
* Hostelworld
* Additional OTAs in future versions
* Compare prices by:

* Date
* Room type
* Cancellation policy
* Occupancy
* Store historical pricing data.
* Detect price increases and decreases.

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## 2. Daily Automated Data Collection

The platform should automatically collect pricing information every day.

Preferred scheduling:

* Once every morning (around 6:00 AM)
* Optional manual refresh

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## 3. AI Pricing Recommendations

Using collected data, the system should recommend the optimal selling price for each room.

The recommendation should consider:

* Competitor prices
* Historical occupancy
* Current occupancy
* Booking pace
* Day of week
* Seasonality
* Holidays
* Local events
* Historical prices
* Historical demand

Example:

> "Increase Deluxe Room price from €95 to €112 due to high demand and low competitor availability."

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## 4. Demand Prediction

The AI should forecast demand for approximately the next **90 days**.

The prediction should estimate:

* Expected occupancy
* Expected demand
* Recommended selling prices
* High-demand periods
* Low-demand periods

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## 5. Event Detection

The system should automatically identify events that may influence hotel demand, including:

* Concerts
* Festivals
* Conferences
* Trade fairs
* Sports events
* National holidays
* Local holidays

These events should influence pricing recommendations.

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## 6. Dashboard

Modern responsive dashboard including:

### Overview

* Occupancy
* Average Daily Rate (ADR)
* Revenue Per Available Room (RevPAR)
* Competitor average prices
* Revenue trends

### Competitor Analysis

For each hostel:

* Current selling price
* Competitor prices
* Market average
* Recommended price
* Difference vs competitors

### Historical Charts

Interactive charts showing:

* Price evolution
* Occupancy trends
* Revenue
* Competitor pricing
* Demand

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## 7. Alerts

Automatic alerts when:

* Competitors significantly increase prices
* Competitors significantly decrease prices
* Local demand increases
* Local demand decreases
* Rooms are priced below market
* Rooms are priced above market

Notifications should be sent via:

* Email
* WhatsApp (preferred)

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## 8. Reports

Automatic reports including:

Daily Report

* Market overview
* Recommended actions
* Price changes
* Competitor changes

Weekly Report

* Occupancy summary
* Revenue summary
* Best-performing properties
* Pricing opportunities

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## 9. Multi-Property Support

The platform must support multiple hotels/hostels.

Initially:

Approximately **14 properties**

Each property should have:

* Individual competitors
* Individual pricing rules
* Individual dashboard

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## 10. Historical Database

Store all collected data including:

* Prices
* Competitors
* Occupancy
* Revenue
* Recommendations
* Market trends

This information will be used for AI learning.

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# Technology Preferences

Preferred technologies:

Backend

* Python
* FastAPI

Frontend

* React
* Next.js

Database

* PostgreSQL

Scraping

* Playwright (preferred)
* Selenium (acceptable if justified)

Deployment

* Docker
* Docker Compose
* Nginx
* SSL

Version Control

* GitHub

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# AI

The developer may use:

* OpenAI
* Anthropic
* Local LLMs
* Machine Learning models

The objective is to build an intelligent pricing recommendation engine.

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# Future Integrations

The architecture should be designed for future integrations with:

* Property Management Systems (PMS)
* Channel Managers
* Booking APIs
* Expedia APIs
* Stripe
* Google Analytics

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# Deliverables

The project must include:

* Complete source code
* Installation guide
* Docker deployment
* Database schema
* API documentation
* Administrator dashboard
* User management
* Documentation
* Testing

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# Ideal Candidate

We are looking for developers with experience in:

* Hotel Revenue Management
* Dynamic Pricing
* AI
* Web Scraping
* Python
* FastAPI
* React
* PostgreSQL
* Docker
* Machine Learning

Please include examples of similar projects.

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# Proposal Requirements

When submitting your proposal, please include:

* Estimated budget
* Estimated timeline
* Similar projects
* Recommended technology stack
* Team size
* Experience with hotel pricing or revenue management systems

We are looking for a long-term development partner, not just a one-time freelancer. The platform will continue evolving with new AI features and integrations after the initial release.