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SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-23-004890 to Travel & Leisure Co. (TNL) (CIK 0001361658) (TNL)

Travel & Leisure Co. (TNL) (CIK 0001361658)
Date: May 9, 2023 · CIK: 0001361658 · Accession: 0000000000-23-004890

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File numbers found in text: 001-32876

Date
May 9, 2023
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Travel & Leisure Co. (TNL) (CIK 0001361658)

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United States securities and exchange commission logo May 9, 2023 Michael A. Hug Chief Financial Officer Travel & Leisure Co. 6277 Sea Harbor Drive Orlando, FL 32821 Re:Travel & Leisure Co. Form 10-K for fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 Filed February 22, 2023 File No. 001-32876 Dear Michael A. Hug: We have limited our review of your filing to the financial statements and related disclosures and have the following comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure. Please respond to these comments within ten business days by providing the requested information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response. After reviewing your response to these comments, we may have additional comments. Form 10-K for fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 Item 1. Business Vacation Ownership Consumer Financing, page 6 1.We note your disclosure that as of December 31, 2022, 94% of your loan portfolio was current. In future periodic filings, please enhance your disclosure to provide historic default rates for all periods presented given the decrease in the current status of your loan portfolio year-over-year. 3. Revenue Recognition Vacation Ownership, page 61 2.Please tell us how and when you record the revenue and liability associated with non-cash incentives bifurcated from sales price of vacation ownership interest sales when entering

FirstName LastNameMichael A. Hug Comapany NameTravel & Leisure Co. May 9, 2023 Page 2 FirstName LastName Michael A. Hug Travel & Leisure Co. May 9, 2023 Page 2 into a VOI sale, and the amounts recorded as of and for the fiscal years presented. In your response, cite the specific accounting literature relied upon. 9. Vacation Ownership Contract Receivables, page 70 3.We note you disclose elsewhere that for developer-financed sales, the VOI sales transaction price is reduced by an estimate of uncollectible consideration at the time of the sale, while noting your characterization of uncollectible consideration as loan loss provision. Further, we note that as a result of improvements in net new defaults and lower than expected unemployment rates, in fiscal year 2021 you "released a portion of your COVID-19 related allowance." Please confirm whether you consider loan loss provisions to be variable consideration considered constrained and excluded from revenue, and clarify and enhance your disclosure to address how you characterize the impact of your loan loss provision. Item 8. Financial Statements Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 23. Segment Information, page 90 4.We note your disclosure that management uses net revenues and Adjusted EBITDA to assess the performance of the reportable segments. Please tell us how you determined it was appropriate to present more than one measure of segment of profit or loss; refer to ASC 280-10-50-28 and ASC 280-10-55-9. In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff. You may contact Mark Rakip, Staff Accountant at 202.551.3573 or Shannon Menjivar, Accounting Branch Chief at 202.551.3856 with any questions. Sincerely, Division of Corporation Finance Office of Real Estate & Construction

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United States securities and exchange commission logo
May 9, 2023
Michael A. Hug
Chief Financial Officer
Travel & Leisure Co.
6277 Sea Harbor Drive
Orlando, FL 32821
Re:Travel & Leisure Co.
Form 10-K for fiscal year ended December 31, 2022
Filed February 22, 2023
File No. 001-32876
Dear Michael A. Hug:
            We have limited our review of your filing to the financial statements and related
disclosures and have the following comments.  In some of our comments, we may ask you to
provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure.
            Please respond to these comments within ten business days by providing the requested
information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond.  If you do not believe our
comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response.
            After reviewing your response to these comments, we may have additional comments.
Form 10-K for fiscal year ended December 31, 2022
Item 1. Business
Vacation Ownership
Consumer Financing, page 6
1.We note your disclosure that as of December 31, 2022, 94% of your loan portfolio was
current.  In future periodic filings, please enhance your disclosure to provide historic
default rates for all periods presented given the decrease in the current status of your loan
portfolio year-over-year.
3. Revenue Recognition
Vacation Ownership, page 61
2.Please tell us how and when you record the revenue and liability associated with non-cash
incentives bifurcated from sales price of vacation ownership interest sales when entering

 FirstName LastNameMichael A. Hug
 Comapany NameTravel & Leisure Co.
 May 9, 2023 Page 2
 FirstName LastName
Michael A. Hug
Travel & Leisure Co.
May 9, 2023
Page 2
into a VOI sale, and the amounts recorded as of and for the fiscal years presented.  In your
response, cite the specific accounting literature relied upon.
9. Vacation Ownership Contract Receivables, page 70
3.We note you disclose elsewhere that for developer-financed sales, the VOI sales
transaction price is reduced by an estimate of uncollectible consideration at the time of the
sale, while noting your characterization of uncollectible consideration as loan loss
provision.  Further, we note that as a result of improvements in net new defaults and lower
than expected unemployment rates, in fiscal year 2021 you "released a portion of your
COVID-19 related allowance."  Please confirm whether you consider loan loss provisions
to be variable consideration considered constrained and excluded from revenue, and
clarify and enhance your disclosure to address how you characterize the impact of your
loan loss provision.
Item 8. Financial Statements
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
23. Segment Information, page 90
4.We note your disclosure that management uses net revenues and Adjusted EBITDA to
assess the performance of the reportable segments.  Please tell us how you determined it
was appropriate to present more than one measure of segment of profit or loss; refer to
ASC 280-10-50-28 and ASC 280-10-55-9.
            In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the
accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or
absence of action by the staff.
            You may contact Mark Rakip, Staff Accountant at 202.551.3573 or Shannon Menjivar,
Accounting Branch Chief at 202.551.3856 with any questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Real Estate & Construction