Routes Asia 2014 Awards Winners Announced

Manchester, England (ots/PRNewswire) -

Abu Dhabi International Airport crowned overall winner in Kuching

Earlier this week Abu Dhabi International Airport was announced as
the winner of the Asia heat of this year's Routes Marketing Awards.
The awards ceremony took place during the Routes Asia Networking
Evening hosted by the Ministry of Tourism, Sarawak at the Pullman
Kuching Hotel and over 700 aviation professionals were gathered to
witness the presentation of the awards and to take part in the 12th
Routes Asia - the largest route development event for the entire Asia
region.

The event was also attended by Datuk Amar Abang Haji Abdul Rahman
Zohari bin Tun Datuk Abang Haji Openg, Sarawak's Minister for Tourism
who presented Abu Dhabi International Airport with their award.
Commenting on winning the award, Tony Douglas, CEO of Abu Dhabi
Airports, said: "It is a great honour to receive the Routes Marketing
Award for Asia. This accolade only adds to the growing significance
of Abu Dhabi International Airport as a state-of-the-art growing
transportation hub in the Asian region. The award is a result of the
commitment of our airport team and airline partners in providing our
passengers with the highest levels of services. It also motivates us
to continue developing and enhancing our facilities and products to
ensure we provide a unique travel experience to all segments of
passengers whether arriving, departing or transiting through Abu
Dhabi International Airport."

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.

"We are delighted to announce Abu Dhabi as the winner of this
regional heat of our awards and would like to congratulate them and
all of our winners," commented Katie Bland, Director Routes, UBM Live
continuing: "In the past 12 months Abu Dhabi has achieved some great
results. The airport recorded double digit growth for the fourth year
in a row, at 12%, in 2013 and welcomed six new carriers with 49
additional weekly flights operated by foreign airlines."

Abu Dhabi were also named as the winner from the 4-20 million
passengers category with Changi Airport Group ranked top from the
over 20 million passengers category. From the under 4 million
passengers category Darwin International Airport were honoured and
the Destination Award went to Tourism Australia.

As overall winner of this regional heat, Abu Dhabi International
Airport will be automatically shortlisted for the World Routes
Marketing Awards which will take place at the event in Chicago, 20-23
September 2014. Abu Dhabi joins Tampa International Airport, who were
announced as overall winner of the Americas heat last month in San
Salvador.

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:

Venggatarao Niadu, Head of Network, Air Asia

Genen NISHIMURA, International & Domestic Network Planning,
Managing Division, Route Marketing, Japan Airlines

Eric Nabong, Manager - Business Planning, Philippine Airlines

Trevor Spinks, Head of Planning & revenue Management, Scoot

The full list of companies shortlisted under each award category
were as follows:

Over 20 Million Passengers
Changi Airport Group - Winner
Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport - Highly Commended
Kunming Changshui International Airport - Highly Commended
Melbourne International Airport

4 - 20 Million Passengers
Abu Dhabi International Airport - Winner
Christchurch International Airport - Highly Commended
Bangalore International Airport
Nanning Wuxu International Airport
Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport

Under 4 MillionPassengers
Darwin International Airport - Winner
Cambodia Airports - Sihanoukville International Airport - Highly Commended
Clark International Airport
Ras Al Khaimah International Airport

Destination Marketing Award
Tourism Australia - Winner
Philippine Department of Tourism - Highly Commended
Singapore Tourism Board
Tourism Malaysia
Tourism New Zealand

Notes to Editors

About Routes

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global event and one regional event in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and CIS
respectively. http://www.routesonline.com
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consultancy specialising in the field of route development for airports.
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plc.
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publications, websites and training and certification programs are an integral part of
the marketing plans of companies across more than 20 industry sectors.
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