Celebrating 2013 RTTF award winners

The second annual Responsible Travel & Tourism Forum Awards lunch was held in Toronto on Jan. 24, celebrating another successful webinar series designed to provide Canadian travel agents with an opportunity to learn more about the key issues of corporate social responsibility. The event also provided an opportunity to present RTTF’s annual leadership awards to individuals and companies in the Canadian travel industry that have made notable achievements in the area of corporate social responsibility. This year’s Student Leadership Award went to Judith Zienchuck of the Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Ryerson University. The Travel Agent Leadership Award was presented to Toronto-based Original Trails. And the RTTF Leadership Award, sponsored by Air Canada, went to Gros Morne Institute for Sustainable Tourism (GMIST). Sponsors of this year’s Responsible Travel & Tourism Forum webinar series — which is organized by Baxter Travel Media — included Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Ryerson University; the Delta Chelsea Hotel in Toronto; Air Canada; TIC Travel Insurance; and Peru. For more, go to http://www.rttf.ca .