Twenty year old Angeli Dione Gomez from Bohol's neighboring province of Cebu capped the Philippines' impressive and overwhelming year in international
pageantry when she was crowned Miss Tourism International, in a pageant held on
New Year’s Eve in Putrajaya, Malaysia.
She bested a record field of 59
candidates since the pageant debuted in 1994
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| Angeli Dione Gomez reacts after winning the Miss Tourism International |
The 20-year-old Miss Gomez was the
third Filipina to win the title, after fellow Cebuana Miss Tourism International
2012 Rizzini Alexis Gomez who crowned her during the pageant, and Maria
Esperanza Manzano, who won in 2000.
Miss Gomez bested a record-number
of 59 candidates. It was the largest participation since the inaugural pageant
in Kuching, Sarawak, in 1994.
Gomez is the third Filipina to win
the Miss Tourism International crown, which is now a back-to-back win with
Rizzini Alexis Gomez also a Cebuana, who won the same crown last year.
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| 2012 Miss Tourism International: Rizzini Alexis Gomez bested a field of 55 beauties to win the crown last year
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Miss Tourism International was won by Maria
Esperanza Manzano last 2000. With three crowns under its belt, the Philippines
now leads the Miss Tourism International tally board for most crowns won. India
and Poland follows both on second place with 2 crowns each.
The eldest of the three daughters
of Dr. Albert Gomez, a pediatrician, and Gwendolyn Barbas Gomez, a
businesswoman, of Toledo City, Cebu, Miss Gomez, won as Toledo City’s Festival
Queen, was Reyna ng Aliwan 2012, and was runner-up in the Miss Resorts World
Manila 2012.
She finished high school at B.R.I.G.H.T. Academy and majored in film at International Academy of Film and Television in Mactan, Cebu
She finished high school at B.R.I.G.H.T. Academy and majored in film at International Academy of Film and Television in Mactan, Cebu
The Philippines' latest addition to
its roster of international beauty queens will be tasked as a traveling
ambassador in promoting informal international relations between countries to
spread the message of peace, goodwill, and friendship.
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Newly crowned Miss Tourism
International 2013 World Final Angeli Dione Gomez, center, of Philippines poses
with 1st RU Sunidporn Srisuwan, second from left, of Thailand, 2nd RU Sarah Czarnuch, second from right, of Australia, 3rd RU Michelle Alexis Torres, left, of Dominican Republic, and 4th RU Thaarah Ganesan of Malaysia after the beauty pageant in Putrajaya, outside
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)
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OFFICIAL RESULTS:
Miss Tourism International 2013:
Philippines
Miss Tourism Queen of the Year
International 2013: Thailand
Miss Tourism Metropolitan 2013:
Australia
Miss Tourism Global 2013: Dominican
Republic
Miss Tourism Cosmopolitan 2013:
Malaysia
Top 10: Bosnia & Herzegovina,
Portugal, Ukraine, Vietnam, Zimbabwe
Top 20: Bahamas, Brazil, Canada,
China, Czech Republic, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, Uganda
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