Travelzoo Is Having Trouble Figuring Out Life After Metasearch

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Travelzoo is a curious case. A newsletter-focused daily deals site that has given up on becoming a global metasearch site, it has clearly had trouble adapting to a marketplace where deals abound. Has a new focus on what its customers actually want come too late?
As the overall online daily deals mania has subsided in tandem with an improved global economy, booking sites which made their name in the discount space have languished.
One of those sites, Travelzoo, is trying to get smarter about what its nearly 30 million subscribers actually want, but seems to be having a tough time figuring it out. After selling off its Fly.com domain earlier this year and shuttering its search product, Travelzoo is living a life after search.
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