QUEEN OF CULTURE AND TOURISM IMO

PAGEANTRY

Pageantry is a potent tool for outstanding business contacts, identifying economic and intellectual potentials, and exchanging technological expertise and development of partnership among various companies in the labor market. It is highly noted and regarded that a veritable tool for promoting industrialization and commerce, entrepreneurship, creativity, leadership moral inclination.

CULTURAL PAGEANT

 DVTC’s initiative- is to serve as a breeding ground for the country’s cultural and tourism values and potentials to be uplifted by the future leaders. The initiative is not only assisting in engendering vacation culture in the youth from an early stage, but also ensuring that they develop sound patriotic zeal, charitable vision, financial management skills, and creativity.

QUEEN OF CULTURE & TOURISM NIGERIA.

 The zeal of birth of this initiative is the social responsibility owned up by the management so as to meet up to the desire to reinvigorate its excellence in patriotism.

QCT’s interest in the campaign for tourism & cultural values awareness in Nigeria is firmly believed on the tremendous potentials for growth. Its main objectives are to highlight the views and opinions of the country’s upcoming leaders both politically and economically, to present their upcoming projects and thus, create a constructive and positive brand of Nigeria at international level.

   QCT has the aim of presenting a genuine perspective of possibilities of foreign investors and businessmen that will be encountered in Nigeria, through the pageant, ensuring that the country is no longer associated to bad news but to economic empowerment, creativity, entrepreneurship ensembles and attractive investment opportunities.

 —  The program is well planned for, in view to grooming credible and variable leaders who will someday elevate the country to one of the leading nations of the world.

—  National costume or regional costume can express local identity and emphasize uniqueness. It is often a source of national pride.

—  QCT could not have been a better time than now, when Tourism has begun to climb its peak due to economic reform of the present administration.

—  It is with this vision, that we enjoin corporate organization like yours to help strive and bequeath lasting reminders of our cultural and tourism values to future generation of Nigeria.

  

OFFICE OF THE QUEEN

v To organize Queen of Culture & Tourism Nigeria Imo State 2012 beauty Pageant, and to choose among others, the most beautiful, cultured and intelligent girl  between the ages of 18 – 25 years, who will be ready to continue the works of creating the much needed Tourism awareness in the state, to project state Tourism sites and potential to a world standard.

v To inculcate vacation culture into the heart of the youth in the state.

v Activation of Vision SK for Orphanages and Homes.

v To inculcate cleanliness culture into the state.

v To eradicate prostitution and unwanted pregnancy among the youth.

v To wage war against drug addiction among the youth.

v To enhance creation of recreation centers and amusement park in all the local government area of the state.

v To encourage beautification through planting of trees and flowers especially at some strategic areas within the Local Government Area.

v To identify and upgrade the existing tourist sites in the state through the office of the queen.

 OUR EXPECTATIONS:-

v Hotel Accommodation for the participants and organizing committee.

v Hall for the event proper.

v Prizes to the winners, cash and other gift items as consolation prizes for the runners up.

v Air condition coastal bus for field trips to Tourist sites, factories and offices of sponsors within the state.

v Media publicity, Print and Electronic media. e.g. T.V, Radio, Newspaper, Handbills Flexi banners and Invitations, Event’s Pamphlet, Backdrop e.t.c.

v Entertainment includes artiste’s performance, P.A equipments and Transportation, Lighting and full multimedia package. As stated in the estimate attached.

 

CAMPING

Ø Contestant: To a maximum of 18 contestant spread across Different ethnic group and states of Nigeria

Ø Date for event: Propose period June/July 2012 subject to change from sponsor. 

Ø Venue: Any good tourist attraction in the Imo.

Ø Duration: 10-14 Days.

Ø Activities: Organization of tours and adventurous trips to the different tourist attractions in Enugu State for the contestants.

Ø Grooming: Cat walk, Run way and poise training for the contestants.

Ø Dance: Training and grooming the contestant on live cultural song/dance from the local government they are representing. Also the contestant need to be groomed for a live cultural group dance tagged Unity Dance which would on display to the audience to promote, unity and togetherness even in the face of to competition.

Ø Physical fitness: We shall endeavor to take contestant on physical fitness in camp to stand the rigors of the competition.

Ø Pep talk: Resource personality in the area of culture, tourism and pageantry shall be invited to the camp to educate the contestants.

Ø Costumes: Getting the costume designers interacting with the contestants on choice of costume befitting the culture and tradition of contestant respectively. Also the fitting of the choreography costumes for the general dance.

Ø Question & Answer:  IQ session is one part of the competition which shows the intelligent level of  the participant, in which we needs to be rehearse or practice on forms of questions and how it should answered in view of the vast tourism potential of the country.

Ø Hair Do: The need to bring in professional hair stylist to the camp at least two days to the final event to design and create a befitting hair style in relative to the contestant costume’s and tradition.

The camping period shall be use to foster friendship and inculcate the much needed vacation culture in the heart of the contestant so also to fine tune the Queen of Culture & Tourism Nigeria. Imo State 2012 in order to have befitting event to world standard.

  

THE MAIN SHOW…One Night

The first appearance of the contestant shall be a non scoring cultural choreography by all the participants.

There shall be four scoring rounds as follows:

v 1^st The casual round: Contestant coming out in an outfit made with locally made fabric e.g. Ankara

v 2^nd The Traditional/Cultural round: Contestant coming out their full cultural regalia and dancing to live cultural/traditional song in relative to her attire and local government area.

v 3^rd This is the evening gown round where each one shall come out in an evening gown made with our locally made fabric also give the opportunity for IQ test where each of the contestant shall pick a number of her choice from a set range of numbers, questions mainly National/state culture and tourism base.

v The judges shall there hence choose among the contestant the best five amongst them that shall go in for the 4th and final round. 

v The last five round of Cultural folk song: Each of the five finalist still in adorn in their evening gown attire shall come out one after the other to render folk song in their original dialect which could backed up any of the other contestant. The song shall be followed up by a general question based on the would pet project according to their vision on the prospect of enhancing the growth of Tourism & Culture in Nigeria as a whole.

CHOICE OF QUEEN.

The Queen of Culture & Tourism Nigeria. Imo State 2012 shall be decided by the decision of the Judges based on Carriage, Facial beauty, Walk, Cultural Dance, Poise, Hair-do, Fashion and Creativity, IQ, Folk Song.  

JUDGES.

The judges shall be five in numbers with four scoring while the fifth shall be the Chief Judge who will not be scoring but collation of marks from the rest four judges.

SCREENING DATE

The screening of contestant comes up after the sales of form for a month and this must be done minimum of two weeks to the camping resumption date to allow the qualified contestant adequate time for preparation. The camps resume 10-14 days to the grand finale as the working crew resumes two to three days before the contestants.

 

The scope of our targeted audience for the glamorous Queen of Culture & Tourism ranges from the state governor, commissioners, state legislators, Local govt. chairmen, and stake holders in Tourism Industries while the proposed date is October 2012 or any other visible realistic by the state.

We will appreciate your speedy attention to our request as we hope to start the media and prints publication as soon as possible.

Thank you for your anticipated support and favorable response.

For further detail and information please call: -  08032455716, 08023921012.

N.B: All Bank Draft or Cheque payable in name to “De’Vision Multimedia Nig. Ltd. (Queen of Culture & Tourism Enugu State 2011)”.

Yours Faithfully,

SOGAOLU Oladapo .B                                                                  ADIM Nwanneka .C

National Coordinator                                                                  IMO State Coordinator

     QCT NIGERIA                                                                            QCT NIGERIA