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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001133311-22-000017"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TZOO"
cik: "0001133311"
company_name: "TRAVELZOO"
filed_at: "2022-04-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T03:56:52.302055+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Travelzoo stockholders approve 600K-share CEO option grant at $8.14

## Summary
- Stockholders approved nonqualified option for CEO Holger Bartel to buy 600K shares at $8.14/share, vesting semi-annually over 2 years (5-year term).
- All five director nominees elected: Ralph Bartel (8.43M for), Christina Ciocca, Carrie Liu, Volodymyr Cherevko, Michael Karg.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved: 5.23M for, 3.42M against.
- Option grant dated March 3, 2022, was contingent on stockholder approval; approval obtained on April 25, 2022.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001133311-22-000017
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TZOO
- cik: 0001133311
- company_name: TRAVELZOO
- filed_at: 2022-04-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1133311/000113331122000017/0001133311-22-000017-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1133311/000113331122000017/tzoo-20220425.htm

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