Castilla-La Mancha has Shown at the Fair 'Expolangues' Paris its Potential as a Destination to Learn Spanish

It is one of the sectoral fairs for foreign language schools in the world

Spain, February 25, 2013 – The Minister of Employment and Economy of Castilla-La Mancha, Carmen Casero, highlighted the success of the promotional mission that the regional government has developed in the show ‘Expolangues’, which has developed recently in Paris to promote our region as a destination to learn Spanish idioms.

Within the field of public-private partnerships, Castilla-La Mancha has shown the many efficient services sector companies teaching Spanish to foreigners.

In this sense, Casero recalled that “it is the development of a proposed action in the Internationalization Plan of Castile-La Mancha, in the program ‘Learn Spanish in Castilla-La Mancha’, which aims to promote the learning of Spanish as regional economic resource and promote the internationalization of language schools for foreigners.

Home also reported that “thanks to our presence in Expolangues Paris, around 24,000 professionals worldwide have come to know our offer and initiate business contacts.”

Also pointed out that France also is a target market for companies of this type of service in our region. According to the Yearbook 2012 of the Instituto Cervantes, “The Spanish in the World”, although no data are universal, comprehensive and comparable, it is estimated that at least 18 million students studying Spanish as a foreign language and within the first countries by number of students, France ranks third after the United States and Brazil, with more than two million students.

Within this program, IPEX, under the Directorate General of Economic Strategy and European Affairs, the Ministry of Employment and the Economy, has organized a first reverse trade mission for education agents in France and Germany, who visited Castilla-La Mancha to learn more about our potential in this economic activity. ” The result is that currently “already designing packages and courses are more in line with the demand of industry professionals.”

Finally, the Minister of Employment and the Economy has also referred to the importance of the “language tourism” leveraging “the potential the second most spoken language in the world, the Spanish, can offer from the land of Don Quixote.”

Home, in this sense, has said that “the Strategic Tourism Plan to be presented in the coming weeks, will mark the roadmap of this economic engine that accounts for 12% of GDP and generates approximately 42,000 jobs in the region, to promote this type of tourism is clear that growth. ”

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