Travelzoo Announces 2010 Travelzoo Award Finalists

NEW YORK, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Travelzoo (Nasdaq: TZOO), a global Internet media company, announced the finalists for the 2010 Travelzoo® Awards today.  Also known as "The Tzoos," the Travelzoo Awards celebrate the companies behind the best travel and entertainment deals of the year.  The 17 categories honor companies in the airline, hotel, vacation, cruise, destination, ground transportation and entertainment industries.  Travelzoo's team of more than 100 deal experts evaluated over 80,000 deals published in the United States and Canada to select the five finalists in each category that provided the best deals over the past year.

"Since 1998, Travelzoo has published outstanding offers from travel and entertainment companies by applying the strictest selection process in the industry," said Shirley Tafoya, president, North America.  "A Travelzoo Award is the ultimate stamp of approval and recognition.  These finalists consistently go above and beyond to inspire travelers with incredible, high-quality deals and encourage millions of subscribers to take trips they might not have considered.  We are thrilled to honor the 2010 finalists.  They are this year's 'best of the best' when it comes to travel and entertainment deals."

Travelzoo Award finalists will be honored and winners will be announced at the fourth annual Travelzoo Awards gala ceremony on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010, at the Westin Kierland in Phoenix.  The awards ceremony coincides with The PhoCusWright Conference, which attracts more than 800 travel industry professionals.

To determine the Travelzoo Award finalists of 2010, Travelzoo's deal experts evaluated more than 80,000 deals published in the United States and Canada in a 12-month period on the following five-point scale:

For more information about the 2010 Travelzoo Awards, visit http://www.travelzoo.com/tzoos.  

The 2010 Travelzoo Award finalists are:

About Travelzoo

Travelzoo Inc. is a global Internet media company.  With 21 million subscribers in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific and 23 offices worldwide, Travelzoo® publishes deals from more than 2,000 travel and entertainment companies.  Travelzoo's deal experts review offers to find the best deals and confirm their true value.  In Asia Pacific, Travelzoo is independently owned and operated by Travelzoo (Asia) Ltd. and Travelzoo Japan K.K. under a license agreement with Travelzoo Inc.

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