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

The Routes Europe Awards 2013 will see a number of innovations for the event in Budapest 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 European region. This year will also see, for the first time at Routes Europe, 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

Frankfurt Airport

Istanbul Ataturk Airport, TAV

Munich Airport

Rome FCO Airport

Vienna International Airport

4 – 20 Million Passengers

Athens International Airport

Bucharest Henri Coanda International Airport

Dublin Airport

Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport

Marseille Provence Airport

Prague Airport

Under 4 Million Passengers

Aberdeen International Airport

Krakow Airport

London City Airport

London Southend Airport

Tallinn Airport

Destination Marketing Award

Malta Tourism

Tourism Ireland

Turismo de Tenerife

Valencia Tourism

Wonderful Copenhagen

The winner and the highly commended airports will be announced during the Routes Europe Networking Evening which will be held on Monday 13thMay at the event in Budapest.