Routes Europe Awards 2013 Winners Announced

Budapest, Hungary (ots/PRNewswire) -

Munich Crowned Overall Winner at Second Regional Heat of 2013

Munich Airport was announced as the overall winner of the third
heat of this year's Routes Awards last night at a spectacular
networking evening which took place at Terminal One of Budapest
Airport. Over 1,000 aviation professionals were gathered to witness
the presentation of the awards and to take part in the 8th Routes
Europe - the largest route development event for the entire Europe
region to date.

"We are really looking forward now to the World Routes awards and
we are very optimistic," said Alexander Schroll, Director, Traffic
Development for Munich Airport, speaking just after receiving the
award. "We are very happy to receive this award and very excited
because the competition in Europe is becoming very fierce between the
airports so it's great to be number one again after a couple of
years!"

Nigel Mayes, VP Commercial, Routes, UBM Live commented: "After
much deliberation our panel of judges felt that Munich should take
the overall winner crown due to quality of their submission combined
with their consistent growth and ability to continually attract new
airlines including Ukraine International Airlines and Vueling."

The Routes Awards recognise and reward the highest standards of
marketing activities undertaken by airports and tourism authorities.
The 2013 awards will see a number of innovations including taking a
blended approach to the nomination process, meaning the final
nominees included a number of the fastest growing airports in Europe,
those who were shortlisted by airlines using our online voting form
together with a number of airports who were selected by a panel of
industry experts drawn from the airline network planning community.
This year the awards were split into three categories based on the
size of the airport and also a new tourism award for best destination
marketing campaign by a tourism authority.

A complete list of companies shortlisted under each award category
is below:

Over 20 Million Passengers
Munich Airport - Winner
Rome FCO Airport - Highly Commended
Vienna International Airport - Highly Commended
Frankfurt Airport
Istanbul Ataturk Airport, TAV
4 - 20 Million Passengers
Athens International Airport - Winner
Dublin Airport - Highly Commended
Marseille Provence Airport - Highly Commended
Bucharest Henri Coanda International Airport
Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport
Prague Airport
Under 4 Million Passengers
Aberdeen International Airport - Winner
Krakow Airport - Highly Commended
Tallinn Airport - Highly Commended
London City Airport
London Southend Airport
Destination Marketing Award
Turismo de Tenerife - Winner
Malta Tourism - Highly Commended
Valencia Tourism - Highly Commended
Wonderful Copenhagen
Tourism Ireland

As overall winner of this regional heat, Munich Airport will be
automatically shortlisted for the World Routes Airport Marketing
Awards which will take place at the event in Las Vegas, 5th- 8th
October 2013. Join San Diego International Airport and Changi Airport
Group who were announced as overall winner of the Americas and Asia
heats respectively, earlier in the year.

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 were acquired by UBM Aviation Worldwide Ltd in August 2010.
From 1st August 2012 Routes, ASM and the Airport Cities Conference and Exhibition
become 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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Contact:
For further press information please contact: Victoria Jones, PR
Executive, Routes, T: +44(0)161-234-2730, E: pr@routesonline.com.