{"id":194464,"date":"2018-12-18T04:25:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T09:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=194464"},"modified":"2018-12-18T04:25:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T09:25:10","slug":"dot-praises-catriona-for-promoting-ph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/12\/18\/dot-praises-catriona-for-promoting-ph\/","title":{"rendered":"DOT praises Catriona for promoting PH"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_157264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157264\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DTv8RcYV4AAZkY7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-157264\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DTv8RcYV4AAZkY7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DTv8RcYV4AAZkY7.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DTv8RcYV4AAZkY7-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DTv8RcYV4AAZkY7-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-157264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;She has single-handedly led more people all over the world to discover that, indeed, it is more fun in the Philippines,&#8221; it added. (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CatrionaEIisa\/status\/953633135576588288\">Photo<\/a>: Catriona Gray\/Twitter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Tourism (DOT) on Monday praised newly-crowned Miss Universe Catriona Gray for &#8220;raising the Philippine flag&#8221; and reintroducing the country and its people before the world through her wit and action.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A passionate advocate of Philippine tourism and a partner of the DOT in and out of the Miss Universe stage, Miss Gray has raised our flag through her words and actions,&#8221; the DOT said in a statement as it joined multitude of well-wishers, congratulating the Filipina with her win at the 2018 Miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She has single-handedly led more people all over the world to discover that, indeed, it is more fun in the Philippines,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism chief Bernadette Romulo-Puyat earlier said Gray personally sought the DOT&#8217;s assistance in making her introduction clip for the international beauty pageant.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to heading to Thailand, Gray visited various places in the country where her promotional video were set to showcase more of the Philippines&#8217; heritage as well as its people&#8217;s rich culture.<\/p>\n<p>She toured Luzon\u2019s Rizal Park, and world-renowned El Nido, Palawan; Mindanao\u2019s multi-faceted South Cotabato; and also showcased the resilience of the Visayan people particularly in Tacloban City, the DOT said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Throughout the Miss Universe competition, DOT underscored that Gray evoked the Filipino people\u2019s essential attributes of friendliness, cheerfulness, hospitality and kindness when she was around the representatives of different nations,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat and the Department of Tourism family joins the Filipino nation in conveying joyful and proud congratulations to our very own newly-crowned Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Elisa Magnayon Gray,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Tourism (DOT) on Monday praised newly-crowned Miss Universe Catriona Gray for &#8220;raising the Philippine flag&#8221; and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":157264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}