It was a back-to-back win for the Philippines in Miss Tourism International pageant when Rizzini Alexis Gomez crowned her compatriot Angeli Dione Gomez as Miss Tourism International 2013/14 in a ceremony held New Year's Eve at at the Putrajaya Marriott Hotel, IOI Resort City in Sepang Utara, Malaysia.
Angeli Dione Gomez bested 59 other delegates to capped the Philippines' most successful year in pageant history. She was the third Filipina to be crowned Miss Tourism International next to surname-sake and last year's winner Rizzini Alexis and Maria Esperanza Manzano, who won way back in the year 2000.
The Cebuana beauty earned her ticket to the competition after winning Mutya ng Pilipinas alsongside Koreen Medina and her win added to the 13 major successes of the Philippines in 2013 (Read: Pinoys in Pageants—13 Major Sucesses in 2013).
Miss Tourism International is a Malaysian-based pageant which aims to promote tourism and cultural exchange. The Philippines is now the winningest country in the history of 17-year-old pageant with 3 crowns.
Here are the winners of the said pageant for 2013-2014.
Miss Tourism International is a Malaysian-based pageant which aims to promote tourism and cultural exchange. The Philippines is now the winningest country in the history of 17-year-old pageant with 3 crowns.
Here are the winners of the said pageant for 2013-2014.
Miss Tourism
International 2013 – Angeli Dione Gomez, Philippines
1st runner up – Thailand,
Sunidporn Srisuwan (also Miss Tourism
Queen of the Year International 2013)
2nd runner up – Australia,
Sarah Czarnuch (also Miss Tourism Metropolitan 2013)
3rd Runner up – Dominican
Republic, Michelle Alexis Torres (also Miss Tourism Global 2013)
4th Runner up – Malaysia,
Thaarah Ganesan (also Miss Tourism Cosmopolitan)
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Special
Awards
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Top
10 Finalists
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Miss Proton
Elegant – Portugal
Miss Beautiful
Skin – Singapore
Miss Friendship –
Uganda
Best in Talent –
Armenia
Miss Tourism
International 2013 Great Ambassador Award – Hong Kong
Miss South East
Asia – Vietnam
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Vietnam, Phan
Hoang Thu
Bosnia & Herzegovina,
Aleksandra Kovacevic Ukraine, Oleksandra
Timonina
Portugal, Sara
Monica Matias da Silveira
Zimbabwe, Dananai
Ratiozo Chipunza
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Watch the crowning moment below:
