ICCS to host Miss Seychelles 2016 |30 April 2016

This year's Miss Seychelles...Another World beauty pageant will be held at the International Conference Centre of Seychelles on Saturday May 28, 2016.
Seychelles Tourism Board (STB) chief executive Sherin Naiken said the organisers were looking for a venue with permanent roofing structure as the month of May falls in the rainy season and hosting the pageant in open air is very risky in case it rains.
She added that most resorts are not willing to host 300 guests over a gala dinner and the pageant together with the sound, lights and other logistics saying it would cause a major disruption to their in-house guests.

In addition, the artistic and technical production teams have to move to the venue with their logistics at least five days before the event and the resorts cannot accommodate it.
CEO Naiken said: "The ICCS has all these logistics with a seating capacity for 600, comfortable air conditioning, excellent stage facilities, ample backstage changing rooms for hair and dressing aspects, spacious air conditioning rooms for the contestants to hang up their pageant wear and also for the line-up of artists.”

Tickets for the event will cost R700 per person to watch the pageant only. Dinner will not be served this year.
The pageant is scheduled to start at 7.30pm and the show is expected to run for three hours during which the 12 contestants will parade in their casual, swimwear and evening wear before the panel of jury.

The contestants have for the past two months followed intensive training and grooming in cat walking, choreography, positive thinking, public speaking, etiquette, protocol procedures, media interviews, gym fitness, culture and traditions, tourism and history of Seychelles among many others.
On the pageant night, the winners of People's Choice, Miss Photogenic, Miss Talent, Miss Sports and the best Beauty With A Purpose project will be announced alongside the top three winners.

Artistic director Raymond Clarisse and his technical and logistics support team have promised a glittering show of sound, lights and music with a line-up of local artists which will definitely thrill the 600-odd viewers attending the pageant.

Tickets for the pageant will be on sale at the STB head office at Espace building and the STB Information Office at Independence House. For any enquiries please call 4671300.