Routes Europe Opens in Marseille

Manchester, England (ots/PRNewswire) -

Record attendance expected at continent's largest route
development event

The 9th Routes Europe, the largest route development event for the
European region, will open this weekend in Marseille, France.

This year the event expects a record attendance of over 1,100
aviation professionals from airlines, airports and tourism
authorities to discuss new air services to, from and within the
entire European region. The event, which takes place on 6-8 April,
will be hosted by Marseille-Provence Airport, the gateway to the
South of France. It attracts the highest level of senior decision
makers, representing over 114 airlines (more than at any previous
Routes Europe event), 340 airports and 30 tourism authorities.

In addition to around 6,000 Face-to-Face meetings to discuss air
services taking place at the event, Routes Europe will open with the
hard hitting Strategy Summit [http://www.routesonline.com/events/conf
erence/15/strategy-summit/#mainContent ], which will include a
keynote address from Frederic Gagey, Chairman & CEO of Air France.

Katie Bland, Director Routes at UBM Live said: "Europe is one of
the largest and most advanced aviation markets in the world. You
might see more impressive growth rates elsewhere, but the European
Union is the world's largest and probably most interconnected
economy, and the region boasts over 500 million affluent consumers.
That explains the strong interests and high attendance we see at
Routes Europe this year."

Pierre Regis, Managing Director, Marseille-Provence Airport added:
"Marseille-Provence Airport and its partners are honoured and proud
to welcome the Routes Europe 2014 Congress. Marseille-Provence
Airport is the gateway to the South of France - Combining
Mediterranean mildness with Provence's quality of life, the
Marseille-Provence catchment area attracts some 30 million tourists
every year."

"Marseille was voted No. 2 'Place to Go this Year' in 2013 by the
New York Times," continued Mr. Regis: "The city was founded over
2,600 years ago and is the 2nd city in France and after several years
of renovation work and urban investments, rarely equalled in Europe,
the New Marseille is finally being unveiled at the heart Provence.
That's the perfect timing to welcome this main event, Bienvenue!"

Participating airlines include Europe's leading network carriers,
such as Air France, British Airways, Iberia, Lufthansa and Alitalia,
as well as all major European low-cost carriers. In addition,
numerous leading non-European airlines will attend the event to
discuss air services to and from Europe, including American Airlines,
China Southern Airlines, Turkish Airlines, S7 Airlines and WestJet.

Marseille-Provence Airport is an important economic player, but it
is also a vector for the development of tourism and business
throughout the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis. In the space of 10
years, passenger traffic at mp Airport has increased by 54%,
constituting the strongest growth in volume among French airports
(excluding Parisian airports) with an additional 3 million
passengers. Marseille has the largest network of long-haul flights in
France after Paris to destinations including New York, Reunion
Island, Mayotte, Madagascar, Dakar, Punta Cana, Montreal and Toronto.

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 [http://www.asm%E2%80%90global.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

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About UBM plc

- UBM plc is a global events-led marketing services and communications
company. 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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Contact:
For further press information please contact: Victoria Jones, PR
Executive, Routes, T: +44-(0)161-234-2730, E: pr@routesonline.com