Is the city council under the impression that tourists will arrive, fail to find a tour guide, then just shrug and go home? I agree that tourist congestion has gotten worse in recent years (a friend of mine recently moved, citing this exact reason), but this is going to do exactly nothing to stop it.

Better yet, hire more before the workload increases so you aren’t training newbies during crunch time.

Well, according to whatever panel was judging this competition, she had all of those things. But you weren’t talking about that. You said she isn’t “physically or genetically” Japanese, and that that was what “pagents are about”.

It isn’t called a genetics pagent. Beauty is already subjective enough without layering your myopic view of race on top of it.