Routes Europe Marketing Awards Winners Announced

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MARSEILLE, France, Apr. 8 / PRN=KYODO JBN / --

City Airport Bremen take top spot at 3rd regional heat of 2014

Last night during a Fabulous networking evening at the Marseille Provence

Cruise Terminal, City Airport Bremen was announced as the overall winner of the

Europe heat of this year's Routes Marketing Awards. A record number of aviation

professionals were gathered to witness the presentation of the awards and to

take part in the 9th Routes Europe - the largest route development event for

the entire European region.

Speaking just after receiving the award City Airport Bremen's, Director Sales &

Marketing, Florian Kruse said: "We are absolutely delighted about the win. The

whole team has done an absolutely amazing and wonderful job over the past year

and across the first months of 2014 and have collectively invented our current

marketing campaign.  We say a big thank you to our customers and friends in the

industry and look forward to perhaps raising the bar further in Chicago at this

year's World Routes."

The annual Routes awards are highly regarded as the most prestigious awards in

the industry as they are voted for and judged by the airline network planning

community.  They provide the airline community with the chance to have their

say as to which airport or tourism authority they think provides the best

overall marketing services to them whether this relates to their particular

relationship, effective results, provision of data and information or

innovative techniques to establish new or maintain and develop existing routes.

As overall winner of this regional heat, City Airport Bremen will be

automatically shortlisted for the World Routes Marketing Awards which will be

announced in Chicago this September. Bremen joins Tampa International Airport

and Abu Dhabi International Airport who were announced as overall winner of the

Americas and Asia heats respectively, earlier in the year.

Bremen was also named as the winner from the Under 4 million passengers

category with Brussels Airport honoured from the 4-20 million passengers

category.  From the Over 20 million passengers category Copenhagen Airport were

ranked top and the Destination Award went to Valencia Tourism.

Katie Bland, Director Routes for UBM Live said: "We were delighted with the

high level of submissions and congratulate all those that were nominated, those

recognised as Highly Commended by the panel of judges and of course all of the

section winners.  It was a close run thing but City Airport Bremen were worthy

winners.  The airport has worked tirelessly to get their name out there against

the big boys and they are standing out from the crowd in terms of creative

campaigns and their results over the past year."

The shortlisted finalists were nominated by airlines and a respected panel of

judges made up of senior members of the airline network planning community from

the region then reviewed the lists and submissions from the nominated airports

in order to determine the winners.  The panel consisted of the following

experts:

Paul Croft, Schedule Development Manager, easyJet

Rikke Munk Christensen, Head of Network Planning, Finnair

Laura Nitu, Head of Product Department, Tarom

Manuele Gazzardi, Network Planning & Commercial, Air Dolomiti

Stijn Vandermoere, Head of Network Development & Scheduling, Wizz Air

A complete list of companies shortlisted under each award category is below:

Over 20 Million Passengers

Copenhagen Airport - Winner

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol - Highly Commended

Frankfurt Airport - Highly Commended

Barcelona-El Prat Airport

Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport

Sheremetyevo Airport

4 - 20 Million Passengers

Brussels Airport - Winner

Athens International Airport - Highly Commended

Prague Airport - Highly Commended

Catania-Fontanarossa Airport

Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport

Under 4 Million Passengers

City Airport Bremen - Winner & Overall Winner

John Paul II International Airport Krakow-Balice - Highly Commended

Shannon Airport - Highly Commended

Begishevo Airport

David the Builder Kutaisi International Airport

George Enescu International Airport, Bacau

Destination Marketing Award

Valencia Tourism - Winner

Stockholm Visitors Board & Convention Bureau - Highly Commended

Malta Tourism

Polish National Tourist Office

Promote Iceland

Notes to Editors

About Routes

Routes organises world-renowned airline and airport networking events through

its regional and global Route Development Forums. Each year, there is one

global event and one regional event in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and

CIS respectively. http://www.routesonline.com

Routes was founded in 1995 as part of the Manchester UK-based ASM Ltd., a

consultancy specialising in the field of route development for airports.

http://www.asm-global.com. Routes and ASM are part of the UBM Live division of

UBM plc.

UBM Live connects people and creates opportunities for companies across five

continents to develop new business, meet customers, launch new products,

promote their brands and expand their markets.  Through premiere brands such as

MD&M, CPhI, IFSEC, TFM&A, Cruise Shipping Miami, the Concrete Show, the Routes

portfolio of events, Airport Cities and many others, UBM Live exhibitions,

conferences, awards programs, publications, websites and training and

certification programs are an integral part of the marketing plans of companies

across more than 20 industry sectors. http://www.ubmlive.com

About UBM plc

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We help businesses do business, bringing the world's buyers and sellers

together at events and online, as well as producing and distributing news and

specialist content.  Our 5,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organised

into expert teams which serve commercial and professional communities, helping

them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

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Source: UBM Live Routes Ltd