With most of the 47 counties having concluded their Miss
Tourism contests and winners announced, preparations for the 2013 Miss Tourism
Kenya grand finale are in their final stages.
Although speculation has been rife that Mombasa County would
host the beauty contest, which makes a comeback after a nine-year lull, it has
been confirmed that the competition will be held at Nairobi’s Kenyatta
International Conference Centre on December 19th this year.
By November 30th, all counties are expected to have
concluded their preliminaries, clearing the way for the 47 models to battle it
out for the coveted post of marketing Kenya’s tourist attractions both within
and outside the country.
From 2015, the crowning of winners will be happening every
May annually, Miss Tourism Kenya director of events and production Tony Chirah
said.
“We will not have a contest in 2014 as a way of
consolidating our events calendar with the next crowning set to happen in 2015.
Then we will have the top model representing us at the annual World Tourism
Week every September,” he said.
“Settling on the May date was a deliberate move for us since
we felt that it was not a must to fit in the normal hype-time for us to make
it. We felt that as droves of people flock into London in November, we can have
them come to Kenya in May to see this country in perspective,” he added.
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