Filipina tops New Year's Eve beauty tilt in Malaysia

Another Filipina won an international beauty title in the last hours of 2013.

Mutya ng Pilipinas Tourism International Angeli Dione Gomez was crowned Miss Tourism International 2013/2014 Tuesday night, Malaysia's New Straits Times reported.

"The first thing I plan to do is to meet my family whom I have not [seen] for about one month and have a nice breakfast with them tomorrow," Gomez said after winning the title.

Gomez, 20, aspires to be a film director. But as she reigns as Miss Tourism International, she will be a traveling ambassador and promote informal international relations among countries.

Sunidporn Srisuwan from Thailand was the first runner-up and Miss Tourism Queen of 2013/2014.

Malaysia's Sarah Czarnuch was second runner-up and Miss Metropolitan 2013/2014, while Dominican Republic's Michelle Alexis Torres was fourth and was also Miss Tourism Global International 2013/2014.

Malaysia representative Thaarah Ganesan won fifth place and is Miss Tourisn Cosmopolitan International 2013/2014.

The Miss Tourism International's website said the pageant was the only New Year's Eve pageant participated in by 30 international beauty queens.

It was first held in Sarawak, Malaysia in 1994 and "serves as a platform to educate and promote tourism and cultural exchange among the participating beauty queens." — DVM, GMA News