Routes Airport Marketing Awards – Shortlisted Airports Announced!

Voting has now closed for the second regional heat of the 2013 Routes Airport Marketing Awards and the shortlisted airports were announced earlier this week.

The Routes Asia Awards 2013 will see a number of innovations for the event in Mumbai which will be continued throughout the year at all other Routes events, culminating at World Routes in Las Vegas this October.

These innovations include a blended approach to the shortlisted airports where the final shortlist will include a number of airports who will be shortlisted using our online voting form together with a number of airports who have been shortlisted by a panel of industry experts drawn from the airline network planning community. This year the awards have been split into two categories based on the size of the airport. There will be one winner from each category and one of those winners will also be announced as the overall winner for the entire Asia region. This year will also see, for the first time at Routes Asia, the addition of a Destination Marketing Award for the best destination marketing campaign by a tourism authority.

Whichever airport wins this highly sought after industry accolade will be automatically shortlisted for the World Routes Airport Marketing Awards which will take place at the event in Las Vegas, 5th– 8thOctober 2013. From the airports nominated the following have been shortlisted within each category:

Over 20 Million Passengers

Beijing Capital International Airport Co. Ltd.

Changi Airport Group

Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CDIA)

Delhi International Airport Pvt Ltd

Soekarno - Hatta International Airport

Under 20 Million Passengers

Auckland International Airport

Bangalore International Airport

Clark International Airport Corporation (CIAC)

GMR Hyderabad International Airport

Juanda - Surabaya International Airport

Kansai International Airport

Siem Reap Airport

Destination Marketing Award

Okinawa Convention & Visitors Bureau

Philippine Department of Tourism

Singapore Tourism Board

Tourism Australia

Tourism New Zealand

The winner and the highly commended airports will be announced during the Routes Asia Networking Evening which will be held on Monday 18th March at the event in Mumbai.

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…