The Mrs. Tourism 2019, a pageant for married women, culminated in the exciting crowning of six titlists during a glitzy event held in Tanghalang Pasigueño on Monday.
Mrs. Thailand Apipapha Jankaen was named Mrs. Tourism Queen Mother 2019 and Mrs. Philippines Giselle Legaspi Barrion was named Mrs. Tourism Universe 2019.
Mrs. Taiwan Melodie Chen took the Mrs. Tourism World 2019 title while Mrs. South Africa Roxanne Theresa Wang won as Mrs. Tourism International 2019.
Mrs. Bangladesh Farhana Afrin Oyshe was named Mrs. Tourism Globe 2019 and Mrs. Laos Malaythong Sirisak was crowned Mrs. Tourism Earth 2019.
The six winners will be called as “The Mother Who Cares for the World,” to reign as the face and voice of the Mrs. Tourism 2019 advocacy to stop racial discrimination and promote their own personal social platforms.
The 38-year-old Barrion is an entrepreneur and facilitator at the University of Santo Tomas Graduate School. She has a Master’s degree in Business Administration at UST Graduate School and is pursuing her PhD in Organization Development at S A I D I Graduate School of Organization Development.
In its third year, Mrs. Tourism 2019 is produced and presented by Megastar Productions, headed by CEO/president Ovette Ricalde, who also manages the Mrs. World pageant, the long-running original pageant for married women founded in1999.
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Linking the country and transforming Filipino lives
Inforserve, Inc. has designed a network—the Nationlink Network which hopes to ‘Link the Nation and Transform Lives’ of the un-served, the poor, and the marginalized in support of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP)’s advocacy on ‘Innovative Financial Inclusion.’
Inforserve, Inc. is registered and recognized since 1984 as an International Fintech Company in the Philippines, and currently, is regulated and supervised by BSP as a ‘Non-Bank Financial Institution (NBFI).
The Nationlink Network is grounded with its vision to bring financial inclusion across networks and to be globally meaningful in transforming financial transactions and making it relevant to everyday needs. It provides innovative and accessible financial services thru modern card and mobile/web-based financial, banking and payment services.
Nationlink Network is dedicated to provide financial inclusion to the world’s financially un-served and under-served population, especially, the poor, marginalized, and migrant workers living in remote towns and villages by enabling and working through ‘bottom-tiered financial institutions’ such as rural or village banks, thrift banks, credit unions or cooperatives, savings and loan associations, miscrofinance NGOs, and merchant agents that will transform lives and spur economic developments in the country.
Nationlink Network has grown significantly over the past 13 years in membership, size of the TM network, card base and its financial condition to maintain its position as the network provider for the marginalized and the unbanked. It has gained the trust of the market and financial industry as well. Nationlink has now a total of 47 existing subscribers all over the country, which include 24 cooperatives, 17 rural banks, 4 cooperative banks and 2 subscribers that are soon to be online.
The Philippines is one of the countries in the world with a long history of sending workers abroad and ranks among the top three countries with the largest recipient of remittances in the world. The role of overseas Filipino workers (OFW)s’ remittances and its contribution/effect on economic growth and development has been duly recognized. Data recorded cash sent home by OFWs surged to an all-time high in December 2018 and clocked in full-year growth that outpaced the BSP’s growth forecast.
But still, workers’ remittances have not been properly utilized into productive and investment uses in the Philippines. Nationlink Network’s objective is to lessen the cost of money transfer which is very expensive in the Philippines. Nationlink gets its revenues from transaction fees, but the goal of the company is to lower the transaction cost for the people who remit a part of their earnings to family members.
With Nationlink Network’s stronghold on its niche as the provider of financial service to the countryside, rural and thrift banks, cooperatives, loans and savings associations and micro-finance organizations are now able t provide modern mainstream banking services such as ATMs and POS, money remittance services, e-banking & e-commerce and mobile banking to their communities in the countryside, by linking their institutions to Nationlink Network.
The Nationlink E-Money Card is a reloadable, multi-purpose electronic value card. This can be transacted through ATMs, Nationlink Cash-in and Cash-out Centers and other POS devices. Contact Nationlink at Tel. No. (02) 892 0200.
