Calhoun sisters, Melissa West and Emma Howell are heading to the 2023 Miss Tourism Pageant Nationals in Nashville, Tennessee, July 20, 21, 22,23, 2023. To help raise funds for their adventure the two are selling dinners on July 7th. Your purchase of a Pulled Pork Dinner for $10 or a Taco Salad for $5 will help to fund their trip! Contact Melissa West at 681-533-2345 or Emma Howell at 034-517-0884 to order.
We are miss tourism
Miss Tourism Contestants prepare for fun, friendship, and new adventures while making the world a better place.
A Tourism Girl will look at her community and she will jump in to help make it better. They will make lifelong friends, challenge themselves with new experiences, write their own stories, and develop the skills and confidence to say, “I know I can do this!”
There is no better group of girls to get the job done. Compassionate, ambitious, and true inspirations to the world. Sometimes a contestant is shy and it takes a while to build her confidence and then look out she will take on the world. This is one reason why, the Miss Tourism Crown of stars is so magical!!!
Miss Tourism Mission
The Miss Tourism Pageant setting the standard to empower young women to embrace their unique beauty, showcase their talents, and become leaders in their communities. We strive to promote leadership, creativity, resilience, empathy, inclusivity, and philanthropy, while providing a platform for personal growth and development. Through our pageant, we aim to inspire young women to pursue their dreams, create positive change, and make a difference in the world, while letting the world know, the young women of today are more than a performer. They are bright future leaders who will change our world for the better.
Miss Tourism vision
The Miss Tourism vision is to passionately provide an event that is world class experience. More than a weekend event but an event that encompasses a whole year of adventures to inspire learning, creativity, philanthropy, self esteem building and challenges taking you out of your comfort zone. Imagine a place where who you are, where you’re from or the circumstances that surround you don’t determine your access to experiences or opportunities. Miss Tourism Pageants are making that vision a reality — in your community and communities around the world. Through local, state and national events.
We believe every young women has what it takes, to accomplish anything they dream. The mission and core beliefs of Miss Tourism Pageants fuel our commitment to promoting safe, positive and inclusive environments for our young women. Miss Tourism Pageants supports all young women – of every size, shape, race, ethnicity, ability, socio-economic status, and religion – in reaching their full potential. Our goal is to provide our young women with the tools to create or reshape her future through life and educational opportunities.
Our Commitment
Our passion
The Miss Tourism Pageant chose a universal social issue as our passion project. We chose Anti Bullying! Our young women can choose to add this as their very own passion project or may choose her social or charitable passion project of her own. At Miss Tourism Pageants we feel it is important to be a significant change in this world and by taking on a passion project it gives our young women a project to champion. In doing this it makes her reign significant and brings awareness and positive change to our world, nations, states, and communities.
Our history
Founded in November 1998, the Miss Tourism Pageant was the creation of our founder, who envisioned an event that would inspire participants to take action, grow, learn, and gain confidence. The inaugural America’s Miss Tourism Pageant began as an online event in 1998, and in 2004, we crowned our first America’s Miss Tourism Queen when the pageant went live. As our contestant pool expanded globally, America’s Miss Tourism evolved into Worlds Miss Tourism. In 2022, we introduced the All-American Miss Tourism Competition, providing even more young women with the opportunity to learn and grow with us.
As we look ahead to the 2023 Pageant, we are excited to announce that we will now be known as Miss Tourism Pageants, marking a new chapter in our organization’s history. We continue to evolve and grow, and we have exciting changes on the horizon that are sure to have a positive and lasting impact on the Miss Tourism Pageant for years to come!” As we look to the future and 2024, we are working hard to bring more to our delegates in 2024, huge announcements and direction giving our girls so much more opportunity.
Team WV Worlds Miss Tourism Queens are as follows :
Worlds MRS Mountain State Tourism 2023 Melissa West
Worlds MRS Mid Atlantic State Tourism 2023 Emma Howell
Worlds Jr Teen Miss West Virginia Lilly Bryant
Worlds Preteen Jr Miss West Virginia Grace Seitz
Nationals are being held in Nashville, Tennessee July 20-23,2023. Each queen participants in photogenic, evening gown, interview and state costume.
The proceeds of the fundraiser will go towards fees and hotel expenses.
