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

The Routes Americas Awards 2013 will see a number of new innovations for the event in Cartagena 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 three 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 Americas region.

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

Dallas Fort/Worth International Airport

El Dorado International Airport, Bogota

George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston

San Francisco International Airport

Toronto Pearson International Airport

4 – 20 Million Passengers

Arturo Merino Benitez International, Santiago

San Diego International Airport

South West Florida International Airport

Tampa International Airport

Tocumen International Airport, Panama

Under 4 Million Passengers

Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport, Cuzco

Hewanorra International Airport, St Lucia

Lynden Pindling International Airport, Nassau

Owen Roberts International Airport, Grand Cayman

Queen Beatrix International Airport, Aruba

The winner and the highly commended airports will be announced during the Routes Americas Networking Evening which will be held on Monday 11th February at the event in Cartagena.