After a full day of celebrating the recovery, rebirth and reimagining of Canada's travel industry, ACTA celebrated some of Canada's finest travel advisors with its annual Leadership Awards.
A large crowd of fellow advisors and supplier partners were on hand to cheer on the winners, and to deliver a standing ovation to the ACTA staff who organized the event.
Here are this year's winners:
2022 ACTA Leadership Awards Leisure Travel Agent Award
The winner of ACTA's Leisure Travel Agent Award is Angela Harrison-Mowbray, CTC, of Travel Escapes Vacations, Revelstoke, BC.
ACTA Leadership Award Corporate Travel Agent Award
This award recognizes a Travel Agent who delivers excellent service to clients, living up to expectations and demands in a timely and efficient manner. This individual must have an exceptional understanding of client's needs from a global perspective, including transportation, destination knowledge, policies, visas, and many other travel requirements.
The winner of ACTA's 2022 Corporate Travel Agent award is Monica Voigt, from Marlin Travel on Richmond Road in Ottawa.
ACTA Leadership Award Tomorrow's Leader Award
This award recognizes a young professional who shows potential as a leader of our industry. The individual will have a keen interest in issues that influence the future of travel and is a role model for other young professionals.
Congratulations go to Shari Tucker from Love the Way You Travel, Halifax NS, the 2022 winner of the ACTA Tomorrow's Leader Award.
ACTA's Ches Chard Education Award
This award was established to honour the memory of Ches Chard, whose commitment to professionalism led to the development of educational programs within the travel industry. His influence was also instrumental establishing the first travel school in the Atlantic provinces. Recipients of this award can be individuals, a travel agency or a group of travel agencies that demonstrate a significant commitment to professionalism, education and training, and excellence in human resources management.
Congratulations to Patricia Marques, CTM from CAA North and East as the recipient of the ACTA 2022 Ches Chard Education Award.
ACTA's Gerald Heifetz Advocacy Award:
This award was established in memory of lawyer Gerald Heifetz who was instrumental in the founding of ACTA and CITC. He also established many of the laws that currently govern the Canadian travel and airline industries. The recipient of this reward must be an individual or organization that has, in the recent year, had a significant and positive impact on the role, status and sustainability of the Canadian Travel Industry.
The recipient of ACTA's 2022 Gerald Heifetz Advocacy Award is Shalene Dudley, CEO, owner and lead Destination Wedding and Group specialist at Latitude Concierge Travel Ltd. In Burlington, Ontario.
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