Yas Island wins 32 new awards and accolades in 2019

Yas Island Abu Dhabi has closed off 2019 with resounding success, sweeping up 32 awards and accolades for its attractions, infrastructure projects and developments.

Yas Island was recognized as the ‘World’s Leading Tourism Development Project 2019’ and ‘Middle East’s Leading Tourism Development Project 2019" at the World Travel Awards, Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported.

The world’s fastest rollercoaster, Ferrari World Abu Dhabi received two accolades from the World Travel Awards – first being named ‘Middle East’s Leading Theme Park 2019’ and most recently crowned as the ‘World’s Leading Theme Park 2019’.

The park also took the ‘Best strategic employee engagement initiative’ and ‘Most creative property-wide event’ by International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) Brass Ring Awards and won the Park World Excellence Award – ‘Seasonal event of the year’ for its annual festive celebration Winterfest.

Yas Waterworld took the ‘World’s Leading Waterpark’ award for the second year running, in addition to being recognized as the ‘Middle East’s Leading Waterpark’ in 2019 by the prestigious World Travel Awards.

It was also recognized as ‘Best Water Park’ by Middle East and North Africa Leisure & Attractions Council (MENALAC) in 2019 in addition to taking the Guinness World Record for ‘The Most Nationalities in a Swimming Pool’ in April 2019 in celebration of Year of Tolerance.
World Abu Dhabi received four MENALAC Awards for ‘Best marketing campaign’, ‘Best New Leisure Concept’, ‘Best Day Out’ and ‘Best Theme Park’, in addition to being named Theme Park Insider’s ‘Best Theme Park’ for 2019.