Zhaniethia Antoinette ‘Zara’
Carbonell Villanueva bested some 30 candidates from around the world to claim
the first Miss Tourism Worldwide title during the finals held last Sunday in
Bantam, Indonesia.
Villanueva, daughter of actor Cris
Villanueva and model Zhar Carbonell, also bagged the Miss Queen Ambassadress
and Miss Multimedia special awards and finished second in the Miss Talent
competition. Miss Thailand was named
first runner-up, South Africa was 2nd runner-up, while Miss France and Miss
Siberia finished as 3rd and 4th runners up, respectively.
Carbonell was asked during the
Q&A round “What is the accomplishment you are most proud of?” The
statuesque Filipina answered with confidence, “I’m very much proud to say that
I’m a co-founder of a social enterprise that we have launched last December
back in the Philippines, it’s a social enterprise that forwards self-awareness
to the youth. In fact I have given about a hundred workshops and talks to
public schools, all over the country, which I’m very much excited to,
hopefully, be able to share also to different nations, and it is in the power
of the youth that I am inspired to be a better person and to do more for the
world, thank you.”
Carbonell, who was 2nd Princess
at Miss World Philippines 2017, was handpicked to represent the country at the
inaugural Miss Tourism Worldwide pageant, presented by the Singapore-based
Lumiere Interntional Organization, which has a platform of "promoting
Tourism and Culture Exchange to the World." Carbonell, who wanted to
become a beauty queen since she was little, added another international crown
to the winning-batch of Miss World Philippines 2017 queens which included Reina
Hispanoamericana Winwyn Marquez, Miss Eco International Cynthia Thomalla and
Miss Multinational Sophia Senoron.
The 25-year-old, graduate of De
La Salle University, is a commercial model, actress and loves to engage in the
sports of soccer, boxing and Muay Thai.
She has appeared in movies, soap operas and played host for Color Manila
Nationwide and VLog titled “In Zee’s Shoes” that brought her to countries in
Denmark, Paris, Malaysia and Phuket. Report
by Eton B. Concepcion / Photo by Ms. Joy Arguil
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