Routes Americas Awards 2013 Winners Announced
During a spectacular networking evening at the Plaza de la Proclamacion in Cartagena’s beautiful Old Town, San Diego International Airport was announced as the winner of the first heat of this year’s Routes Airport Marketing Awards. Over 400 aviation professionals were gathered to witness the presentation of the awards and to take part in the 6th Routes Americas – the largest route development event for the entire Americas.
“We are absolutely delighted to pick up the overall winner award in the Americas heat of the prestigious Routes Airport Marketing Awards. We thank our airline partners for the investments they have made in our community,” said Hampton Brown, Director Air Service Development for San Diego International Airport.
The Routes Airport Marketing Awards have become synonymous with recognizing and rewarding the highest standards of marketing activities undertaken by airports. The 2013 awards will see a number of innovations including taking a blended approach to the nomination process, meaning the final nominees will include a number of airports who will be shortlisted using our online voting form together with a number of airports who have been 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. As overall winner of this regional heat of the Routes Marketing Awards San Diego 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.
San Diego were also named as the winner from the 4-20 million passengers category with George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston honored from the over 20 million passengers category. From the under 4 million passengers category Queen Beatrix International Airport, Aruba were ranked top and the Tourism Award went to Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau.
The full list of companies shortlisted under each award category was as follows:
Over 20 Million Passengers
George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston - Winner
Dallas Fort/Worth International Airport – Highly Commended
El Dorado International Airport, Bogota
San Francisco International Airport
Toronto Pearson International Airport
4 – 20 Million Passengers
San Diego International Airport – Winner & Overall Winner
South West Florida International Airport – Highly Commended
Tampa International Airport – Highly Commended
Arturo Merino Benitez International, Santiago
Tocumen International Airport, Panama
Under 4 Million Passengers
Queen Beatrix International Airport, Aruba - Winner
Lynden Pindling International Airport, Nassau – Highly Commended
Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport, Cuzco
Hewanorra International Airport, St Lucia
Owen Roberts International Airport, Grand Cayman
Shortlisted Destinations
Fort Lauderdale - Winner
Mexico – Highly Commended
Aruba
Guatemala
Peru
Trinidad & Tobago
