Panama hosted the pageant for the second time.

This was announced in April 2011 and a long list of cities have expressed interest in hosting the pageant.

Tianjin, China would host the pageant for the first time.

China would not host the pageant again, until 2007.

American-born Jim Perry hosted the pageant from 1967 until 1990.

It was Manila's second time to host the pageant, having hosted Miss Universe 1974 twenty years earlier.

Mexico first hosted the pageant in Acapulco in 1978.

Raúl Velasco hosted the pageant for the third consecutive time.

This edition was the 5th year that Las Vegas hosted the pageant.

For the first time Ernesto Laguardia hosted the pageant.