Travelzoo Executive Compensation (FY25)
TZOO · Executive and director compensation, fiscal 2025 only
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Positioning against its disclosed peers, the governance read, incentive design, and the CD&A alignment analysis; the full peer table; a committee-ready PDF.
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Data as of September 7, 2026Latest filing (8-K): April 20, 2026
10 filings cited on this page
Method: intel.velarion.ai/methodology
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61 figures on this page: 52 cited to the filing that reported them, 9 calculated from figures it prints. See the citations
This company is not required to report a chief executive pay ratio.
Frequently asked questions
Answers drawn from the data on this page.
Who is Travelzoo's chief executive and what were they paid?
Holger Bartel was paid $586,550 in total compensation as Global Chief Executive Officer and Head of Strategy for fiscal 2025.
What was Travelzoo's say-on-pay result?
Shareholders supported the say-on-pay proposal with 97.3% of votes cast for or against in favor at the meeting held April 20, 2026 for fiscal 2025.
Executive compensation
Every element reported for each named executive officer, by fiscal year.
Fiscal 2025
| Officer | Salary | Bonus | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Pension and deferred earnings | All other compensation | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Holger Bartel Global Chief Executive Officer and Head of Strategy | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | — | — | ◇ |
Christina Sindoni Ciocca Chief Membership Officer and General Counsel, and CEO of Jack's Flight Club | ◇ | — | — | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Lijun Qi Chief Accounting Officer | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. $0 is shown only where the filing prints a zero. A negative change in pension value is shown but, as the company reports it, not included in the total.
Outstanding awards
Awards still held at fiscal year end.
As disclosed at fiscal 2025 year end
| Officer | Award | Unvested units | Market value of unvested units | Exercise price | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christina Ciocca | Option | ◇ | — | ◇ | — |
A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. $0 is shown only where the filing prints a zero.
Director compensation
What each non-employee director was paid.
Fiscal 2025
| Director | Fees earned in cash | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Pension and deferred earnings | All other compensation | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Michael Karg | ◇ | — | — | — | — | — | ◇ |
Volodymyr Cherevko | ◇ | — | — | — | — | — | ◇ |
Sharry Sun | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | — | ◇ |
Carrie Liqun Liu | ◇ | — | — | — | — | — | ◇ |
Holger Bartel and Christina Sindoni Ciocca served on the board in fiscal 2025 and received no compensation for board service. Executive directors are typically paid through their executive roles, shown above.
A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. $0 is shown only where the filing prints a zero.
Director fee schedule
The standing retainers and premiums the board pays, as published.
| Board cash retainer | ◇ |
| Audit committee chair | ◇ |
| Audit committee member | ◇ |
| Compensation committee member | ◇ |
Disclosed peer group
The companies this board named as its compensation comparison group. The list is disclosure; the comparison is analysis.
Say-on-pay history
Shareholder support for the compensation program, by year.
| Year | Meeting | Support | Votes for | Votes against | Abstentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | April 20, 2026 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
| 2024 | June 4, 2025 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
| 2023 | April 26, 2024 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
| 2022 | June 1, 2023 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
| 2019 | May 29, 2020 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
| 2018 | May 14, 2019 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
| 2017 | May 15, 2018 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
| 2016 | May 22, 2017 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
| 2015 | May 6, 2016 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
What this page does not include
Everything above is a fact Travelzoo disclosed, and it is free. Everything below is our analysis of those facts, and it is not.
Written compensation analysis
A read of the pay program as designed and as paid: incentive structure, goal rigor, the alignment between the committee's stated philosophy and what the numbers show.
Executive Compensation Report — $1,500Board and governance analysis
Committee composition, independence, director pay positioning, and the governance provisions read together rather than listed.
Board Governance Report — $1,200Realizable pay
What the awards above are actually worth today against what they were valued at on grant, and what the gap says about the pay-for-performance link.
Velarion IntelligenceAdviser switching and vote outcomes
Two datasets covering compensation-adviser changes and what followed a contested vote. Both are part of the Velarion platform.
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61 figures on this page: 52 cited to the filing that reported them, 9 calculated from figures it prints.
52 cited to the filing
9 calculated from the filing
Documents cited
- 0001133311-26-000007
- 0001140361-26-009029Director Compensation · Outstanding Equity Awards as of December 31, 2025 · Summary Compensation Table · THE ELECTION OF THE FIVE DIRECTOR NOMINEES NAMED ABOVE.
- 0001628280-25-029275
- 0001133311-24-000015
- 0001133311-23-000020
- 0001133311-20-000030
- 0001133311-19-000022
- 0001133311-18-000020
- 0001133311-17-000028
- 0001133311-16-000073
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The Travelzoo brief, $1,500
Positioning against its disclosed peers, the governance read, incentive design, and the CD&A alignment analysis; the full peer table; a committee-ready PDF.
From $1,200 for the board report; $2,400 for both.
10 filings cited on this page
Method: intel.velarion.ai/methodology
A report that fails to generate is refunded in full
Published by Velarion Company Intelligence
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Velarion Company Intelligence. (2026). Velarion database: executive and board compensation data (Version 2026Q3) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22283854
BibTeX
@misc{velarionData2026,
author = {{Velarion Company Intelligence}},
title = {Velarion database: executive and board compensation data},
year = {2026},
version = {2026Q3},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.22283854},
publisher = {Zenodo},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22283854}
}