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Attractive Local Festivals Costumes Featured in World-Class Beauty Pageant
Several attractive costumes of the well-known festivals in the country were featured in the world-class tourism beauty pageant organized by a largest resort in this town.
Forty candidates composed of twenty handsome men and twenty beautiful women vying for the crown of Mr. and Miss Hannah’s World Tourism Philippines 2018 were dressed with the artistically designed festival outfits during a presentation at the Hannah’s Beach Resort and Convention Center on the frist week of this month.
Some of the festivals’ costumes paraded during the pre-pageant contest were the Bangus Festival costumes, the Masskara Festival costumes, the Sinulog Festival costumes, the Manggahan Festival costumes, among others.
The board of judges selected the top five finalists in the male and female categories of the pageant during the preliminary contest.
The winners were announced and awarded in the pageant’s grand coronation night at the Newport Performing Arts Theater in Resorts World Manila, 3rd Floor Newport Mall, New Port City, Pasay City last May 12.
Retired Colonel Ricardo L. Nolasco Jr., the owner of the Hannah’s Beach Resort and Convention Center, said that the world-class beauty pageant this year featured the local attractive costumes of various festivals in the different places in the country to promote internationally, the elegant Philippine-made clothing products.
Prior to the pageant, Nolasco said, “Our world-class beauty will be regal and classy, and we aimed to show a big production that that has not yet been seen in a national pageant.”
Accordingly, the seven-year old Hannah’s resort hosting of the beauty pageant was realized as a mode of the resort’s sustainable promotion on the environment–friendly eco-tourism programs.
“Actually, Hannah’s organizes world-class beauty pageants primarily aimed to develop men and women, who make it their mission to help others change their habits for the preservation and conservation of the world’s pristine environment,” he said.
“This is one of our ways to promote an icon of beauty and purpose; by having a voice to create a new order of a sustainable tourist destination in Ilocos Norte and at the same time to promote the importance of sustainable protection of the environment for the sake of the future generation,” he added.
Meanwhile, Nolasco expressed his full support to the initiative of President Rodrigo R. Duterte concerning the sustainable environment-friendly tourists’ destination in the country.
“It’s a lesson learned by all of us in the tourism industry; we need to create a new order for tourism and one of which is an environment-friendly and sustainable in the years to come,” he said.
Citing the closure of Boracay Island, Nolasco said all tourism stakeholders need to develop and strengthen the industry without sacrificing the environment.
“Generally, it is sad to note for Philippine tourism, they might think that all other beaches in the country are like that; it’s a lesson learned by all of us; I hope that within six months, it will be back to normal and the glory of Boracay will be restored,” Nolasco said.
With the closure of Boracay, Director Martin Valera, the regional director of the Department of Tourism (DOT), confirmed that the tourists have flocked to different beaches in the Ilocos provinces.
“We are surprised because we are receiving a thousand guests everyday. All the more that we should support the ideals of our president and advocate for sustainable tourism,” Nolasco said. (ajc/FGL,PIA-1)
