Travelzoo

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Travelzoo Inc.
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Type Public (NASDAQ: TZOO)
Founded May, 1998 in Mountain View, CA
Headquarters New York, NY, with other offices in Mountain View, CA, Chicago, IL, Miami, FL, Las Vegas, NV and Toronto, Ontario in North America; and London, England, Barcelona, Spain and Munich, Germany in Europe.
Key people Ralph Bartel Ph.D., founder, Chairman, CEO
Wayne Lee, CFO
Steven M. Ledwith, Chief Technology Officer
Shirley Tafoya, Sr. Vice President of Sales
Holger Bartel Ph.D., Executive Vice President
Christopher Loughlin, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Europe
Erik Qualman, Senior Marketing Director
Industry Internet Information Provider
Products Internet travel offer publishings from airlines, hotels, cruise lines, vacation packagers, etc.
Revenue image:green up.png$43.5 million USD
Employees 87 (last reported count)
Slogan Outstanding deals. Handpicked daily.
Website www.travelzoo.com

Travelzoo Inc. (NASDAQ: TZOO) is the largest publisher of travel deals on the Internet. Travelzoo's publications include the Travelzoo website Travelzoo.com, the Top 20® List, a NewsflashTM email alert service, and SuperSearchTM, a travel search engine. With over 10 million subscribers in the United States, U.K., Canada and Germany, Travelzoo's local experts evaluate and test each offer for value and availability.

Travelzoo features more than 1,300 offers on its Web site and works with more than 600 travel companies including Marriott, Southwest Airlines, Carnival Cruise Lines, American Airlines, Lufthansa, and Hertz.

In June 2005, Travelzoo launched Travelzoo Europe Ltd., expanding into the United Kingdom with the launch of Travelzoo UK. Since that time Travelzoo has garnered over 500,000 subscribers to its newsletter products there. Travelzoo has also expanded into Canada and Germany.

[edit] Stock price movements

When Travelzoo had its initial public offering (IPO) on August 28, 2002, it was priced at $6.50/share. By January 2005 its share price had skyrocketed to $110.62/share. From the all time high, Travelzoo returned to around the $20 level. On April 18 and 19, 2006, Travelzoo stock rallied nearly 70% to close at $33.75/share on April 19. Speculation and excessive short selling are cited for the extreme volatility in Travelzoo's stock price, similar to what happened to many companies during the Internet bubble of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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[edit] Travelzoo-owned sites and services

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