21 things you didn't know about the greatest beauty show on earth
The Sheraton Sanya Resort, where the girls are staying, has to prepare 3,000 kgs of fresh fruit every day to satisfy the girl's requirements.
The girls have between them over 650 suitcases which were all handled within 45 minutes by the staff of The Sheraton Sanya Resort.
The prime table at the final has been sold to a lucky person for $45,000, the proceeds of which go to The China Charity Federation (The CCF).
1 ticket for the event was auctioned for $42,000, again the proceeds go to The CCF.
Hainan Airlines provided 2 Boeing 737's to transport the contestants and the Miss World Organisation around China on their 2 week tour.
100,000 Gold Hearts, specially shipped in by Miss World Executive Chairman Julia Morley, have also gone on sale throughout China to raise money for The CCF.
The Miss World Organisation has raised over £150 million for charity since it was founded.
This year's final will go interactive for the first time. It will also be the world's first World Wide Web vote through
www.missworld.tv.
There are 8 birthdays amongst the contestants including Miss Wales' 21st.
There are 106 contestants in this year's final which is an all time record for the event.
Microsoft has just released figures that show that The Miss World website
www.missworld.tv is the largest website in the world receiving 100 million hits per day.
The beach beauty and personality pictures both made Yahoo's most viewed slide shows. The beach beauty picture made Yahoo's most emailed.
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The Presidential suite at The Sheraton Sanya Resort is being auctioned along with a pair of tickets to the final on
www.sina.com, China's largest portal.
Over 2 billion people will be tuning in world wide to watch the spectacular on December 6th which makes it the largest annual TV event in the world
23 of this year's contestants saw snow for the first time when the party visited The Great Wall of China.
15 of this year's contestants had never seen the sea before arriving in China.
This year there are 2 doctors and a dentist taking part.
Miss Ireland Rosanna Davison, daughter of Irish singing legend Chris de Burgh, won the first Miss World Beach Beauty title on November 28th.
The Chinese authorities kindly relaxed their controls to allow 10 lucky contestants the chance to stand next to the terracotta army.
In Xian they opened the gates of the city for the first time since President Clinton's state visit to let the contestants walk through. They were all given the keys to the city and invited to return at any time.
The Tsing Ma Bridge in Hong Kong, one of the busiest roads in the city, was closed for the first time in history to allow the girls to parade across.