Ghana’s premier tourism beauty pageantry, Miss Tourism Ghana has launched its 2022 edition in Accra, under the theme, ‘Tourism, the Heart of Ghana’.
For the past thirteen years, organizers of the event have championed the course of promoting Ghana’s rich culture through beauty pageantry. In addition, these contests are used as driving tools to engender charity work, women’s health advocacy, and tourism promotion, among others.
Speaking during the launch of the event, the Director of events and operations of Miss Tourism Ghana, Delphine Brew-Hammond, explained the theme while indicating that it will cover chieftaincy, entertainment, social media, culture, heritage, etc.
“Tourism is not just about travel. So, we want to explore the real heart of Ghana, our warmth, cultural heritage, etc. We’ll be going to villages to continue doing our orphanage work, helping the needy, women advocacy for women’s health and we also want to open up Ghana to more of the diaspora. It shouldn’t only be about Christmas in Ghana, a lot more things happen in Ghana”.
Delphine Brew-Hammond
The grand finale is expected to take place on September 2, 2022, at the National Theatre. According to the event organizers, the entire month of May will be dedicated to auditions in different regions in the country, with the last one happening on June 4, 2022, in Accra after which sixteen finalists will be picked.
Mrs. Brew Hammond noted that as always, “once we are done with the auditions, we normally pick about forty (40) girls and we assign them with tasks and they do it, then we pick the sixteen (16) out of it”.
“One of the years, we tasked them to do a 3-minute video to sell Ghana and we sent the videos all across the world and got the feedback, picked sixteen (16) girls, camped them, and after everything is done, we go to the grand finale and we pick a winner”.
Delphine Brew-Hammond
Mrs. Brew Hammond however insisted that during the competition, the ladies do not represent the region they hail from. According to her, they expect the contestants to learn about the other regions which will help them to be tolerant.
Even though she acknowledged that there have been challenges, she did not want to dwell on them but called for individuals and organizations to come and support the initiative.
Details of Miss Tourism Beauty Pageant
Ahead of the final showdown, the contestants will engage in Culture Day Competition, Debate, Regional Cooking Contest, GTP Fashion Show and Read Ghana Night among others.
Mostly on the night of the grand finale, it starts with a choreography from the contestants followed by a Regional Specific showcase, where all the 16 finalists will take their turn on the stage to sell the tourism potentials of the regions they represent.
Following that, patrons will enjoy an action-packed talent show from contestants, which will lead to the selection of the final five contestants, out of which the ultimate winner will be announced. On the night, there will also be other awards such as the Miss Culture, Miss Civic, Miss Catwalk, Miss Clear Skin, and Miss Eloquent among others.
The current Miss Tourism queen is Twenty-five-year-old, Jemima Nyamewaa Akpandja, who is a final year student of the University of Education (UEW), and a native of the Oti Region.
For emerging the winner last year, Ms. Akpandja represented Ghana on the international stage, received monthly allowance together with airtime, monthly styling, a national tour, and received hampers from sponsors. She also had her wardrobe stocked by GTP for a year, received a prize from NASCO Electricals, Spa treatments at Seera Beauty Medical Aesthetic Institute, a Makeup package from Max International Beauty, among other juicy awards from sponsors.
A graduate of the University of Ghana, Caroline Naa Nunoo, and Millicent Awiendi of Feulme Services and Engineering Limited who represented the North East and Volta regions emerged first and second runners-up respectively.
They also represented Miss Tourism in other international competitions and enjoyed monthly allowances, souvenirs, and other packages from sponsors.
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