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Puerto Rico is the first ever Spanishspeaking country to host the Miss World pageant. >Nahira Montcourt
Miss World 2021 beauty pageant officially opens in Río Grande The Weekly Journal Staff
The contest will be held on December 16
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he Miss World 2021 pageant officially welcomed this week the 98 contestants aspiring to become the world’s next beauty queen. The ceremony, which took place at the Hyatt Regency Grand Reserve Puerto Rico in Río Grande, was the first time the 98 contestants were presented to the public, the international media, government and pageant officials, and local personalities. “We are very excited to be here, and we are ready to show the world all the wonders that Puerto Rico has to offer, especially its culture and the warmth and kindness of its people,” said Julia Morley, executive director of Miss World Ltd. Puerto Rico is the first ever Spanish-speaking
We are ready to show the world all the wonders that Puerto Rico has to offer, especially its culture and the warmth and kindness of its people. Julia Morley, executive director, Miss World Ltd.
Stephanie Del Valle, Miss World 2016 (left), Wilnelia Merced, Miss World 1975 (center) and Julia Morley, executive director of Miss World Ltd. >Nahira Montcourt
Miss World Puerto Rico 2021, Aryam Díaz Rosado. >Nahira Montcourt
the contestants was deputy country to host the Miss World executive director of the Puerto pageant. Rico Tourism Company (PRTC) Contestants will stay in Puerto María López, who said she Rico for 26 days, and the Hyatt was proud of how the pageant Regency Grand Reserve will will showcase Puerto Rico as become their home during this 98 contestants “a tourist destination of great period. The Miss World 2021 aspire to become luster, showing its natural final will help boost Puerto Miss World 2021. beauties, infrastructure and Rico’s economy by generating modern technology to handle around 2,840 hotel room nights large-scale events.” during the contestants and staff’s month-long stay. Also, For his part, the mayor of Río 10,000 additional room nights Grande, Ángel González Damudt, from fans, family members and franchise holders thanked pageant producers Julia Morley and are expected for the last week of the pageant in Stephanie Del Valle, Miss World 2016, for choosing hotels in the San Juan metropolitan area. Río Grande as the contestants’ home away from Among the government officials welcoming home.
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