Using a temple as a background for cheesecake shots is is gross poor taste.
From Bangkok post
Pageant beauties named tourism ambassadors
ACHADTAYA CHUENNIRAN
Phuket _ Reigning Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins and all 81 Miss Universe 2005 contestants have been made ambassadors to promote tourism here, especially in the six tsunami-ravaged southern provinces.
Tourism and Sports Minister Somsak Thepsuthin announced the appointments yesterday after taking Ms Hawkins and contestants from Thailand, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Finland, India, China and Switzerland to visit Patong Hospital and a danger warning tower on Patong beach in Kathu district.
Mr Somsak said Thai authorities had awarded the beauty queens with certificates making them tourism ambassadors, and told the Tourism Authority of Thailand to provide decent accommodation, food and services for them whenever they visited Thailand after the contest.
Footage to be aired worldwide during the final of the pageant would show people that Phuket and other Andaman provinces had returned to normal since the tsunami disaster, he said.
The minister took the contestants to the danger warning tower on Patong beach to show them that Thailand was a safe tourist destination with warning systems in place.
``Most of the beauty queens were interested in the early warning systems and promised to tell people about Thailand's readiness to issue danger warnings,'' Mr Somsak said.
Funny the Thai government should make such a statement considering all the stories about pictures of Thai boys being all over the net...and the sick, demented, tours charted within the country....seems like the pageant is a step up.