Routes Europe Marketing Awards Winners Announced

Marseille, France (ots/PRNewswire) -

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

- 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