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Industry celebrates 2013 RTTF AwardsThe second annual Responsible Travel & Tourism Forum Awards lunch was held in Toronto 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. Organized by Baxter Travel Media — with sponsors including the Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Ryerson University. the Delta Chelsea Hotel in Toronto. Air Canada. TIC Travel Insurance. and Peru — the luncheon saw Judith Zienchuck of the Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Ryerson University win the Student Leadership Award. Toronto-based Original Trails earn the Travel Agent Leadership Award. and the Gros Morne Institute for Sustainable Tourism (GMIST) being presented with the RTTF Leadership Award, which is sponsored by Air Canada. Seen here, from l to r, at the presentation of the RTTF Leadership Award are Air Canada’s manager, environmental affairs, Myrka Manzo. GMIST’s board chair, Stan Cook Jr and Colleen Kennedy, executive director of the Gros Morne Cooperative Association. and Baxter Travel Media’s president, David McClung.