miss world 2021 kicks off in río grande

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

The 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.

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

country to host the Miss World pageant. Contestants will stay in Puerto Rico for 26 days, and the Hyatt Regency Grand Reserve will become their home during this period. The Miss World 2021 final will help boost Puerto Rico’s economy by generating around 2,840 hotel room nights during the contestants and staff’s month-long stay. Also, 10,000 additional room nights from fans, family members and franchise holders are expected for the last week of the pageant in hotels in the San Juan metropolitan area. Among the government officials welcoming the contestants was deputy

In fact, executive director of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company (PRTC) María López, who said she was proud of how the pageant 98 contestants will showcase Puerto Rico as aspire to become “a tourist destination of great Miss World 2021. luster, showing its natural beauties, infrastructure and modern technology to handle large-scale events.” For his part, the mayor of Río Grande, Ángel González Damudt, thanked pageant producers Julia Morley and Stephanie Del Valle, Miss World 2016, for choosing Río Grande as the contestants’ home away from home.