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INTERNATIONAL. Entries for the annual Airport Food & Beverage (FAB) Awards, run by The Moodie Report and sister title The Foodie Report, closed on 11 May, with a record 161 nominations from around the globe.
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The dedicated Airport Food & Beverage (FAB) Conference & Awards website can be found at www.FABawards2012.com |
Interestingly, the category that attracted the most nominations was ‘Sense of Place’, a new classification for 2012 that seeks to promote the concept of F&B reflecting local or national tastes, traditions and culture.
Another new category, ‘Best Railway Station F&B Offer’, also attracted a very high number of innovative entries from several countries.
The judging panel will convene in coming days to review all nominations and a shortlist will be drawn up and published by the end of this month. Winners will be announced at the 2012 Airport Food & Beverage (FAB) Conference & Awards Gala Dinner on the evening of 21 June in Amsterdam.
This year’s judges are:
David King, Director, The David King Partnership
Martin Moodie, Founder & Chairman, The Moodie Report
Dr Patricia Ryan, America Bureau Chief, The Foodie Report/The Moodie Report; and President, Decision Services International
David King, Convenor of Judges, said: “We’re incredibly impressed with the number and, more importantly, the standard of nominations this year. They underline travel food & beverage’s status as a vibrant, evolving, increasingly quality-obsessed sector that is flourishing as never before.”
The FAB-ulous event, taking place 20-22 June, will be hosted by Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, which has promised an extraordinary celebration of the very best in food & beverage.
Appropriately, FAB 2012 will be held at the Okura Hotel, a centre of culinary excellence in the Dutch capital.
Leading global F&B concessionaires HMSHost and SSP are Platinum Sponsors of FAB 2012, and will host the Opening Evening Event and the Gala Dinner respectively.
Full information on conference and hotel registration, plus the preliminary conference programme, can be found at www.FABawards2012.com
For queries on sponsorship please contact Sarah.Genest@TheMoodieReport.com; for programme and registration enquiries please contact Martin@TheMoodieReport.com
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This year’s host, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, offers a diverse, compelling F&B portfolio of nearly 80 outlets |
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*FOOTNOTE: Genevieve Knevitt is Deputy Editor of The Foodie Report, an e-Zine published by The Moodie Report and dedicated to all travel-related, revenue-generating food & beverage services. To view the most recent edition click here.
To subscribe, please e-mail Sinead.Moodie@TheMoodieReport.com
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