Recently, the Department Economy and Infrastructure of the Provincial Association of PARTY Burgos Castilla y Leon (PCAL-Burgos) has analyzed the economic impact of the implementation in Burgos Language Capital of the city would have to quantifying the economic returns to the city EUR 125 million per year, which would grow to 150 million euros for 2018, and would also create more than 500 permanent jobs in the cultural sector and tourism. These figures denote that the English language, understood as a cultural industry of strong economic future is a train that neither Burgos and set of Castilla and Leon should not lose it. This is also a non-polluting economic activity, or dirty, which requires modest initial investments and that deepens the economic environment associated with the culture and new technologies that should be one of the engines out of the economic crisis in Burgos, Castilla y León.
Burgos configuration as Capital of the English language, would in the opinion of the Castilian Burgos, to develop initiatives for economic revitalization and job creation linked to the delivery of unique development of the Community of Castilla y León such as the Cultural Heritage , the Natural Environment and the English Language.
Quantifying the economic impact of converting to Burgos in the capital of the English language, is structured, in our view, the economic returns of the following proposals:
a city Burgos Making reference to the teaching of Castilian foreigners, our city attracts approximately 20,000 students per year (8.3% of total arriving in Spain at present), with an annual growth of 10% and an economic impact of 40 million euros annually in the city. Convert
Burgos in the landmark in the training of teachers of English, both through the existing language schools, University and Institute of Burgos and Leon Castilian Language, training 1000 teachers annually, with annual economic impact Burgos city of 20 million euros. Recover
Burgos historic role in publishing books in Castilian, both for student learning in our country and foreign students, in both paper and electronic form, creating and enhancing the brand "printed in Burgos the cradle of the Castilian, "as a mark of quality in the world of publishing, with an economic impact in Burgos which could be set at 10 million euros annually. Figure
Enhance cultural tourism "Tourism in Castilian" through routes of authors and literary works and historical sites linked to language, which especially articulate the province, through routes that create economic activity and employment in rural gripped by depopulation and aging, with an economic impact can be estimated at 12 million euros annually. From PCAL-Burgos specifically proposed the following routes: The Origins of Language (Valpuesta, Taranco Oña and northern Burgos), the Cid (Vivar, Burgos, Cardena, Route Exile, ...), Fernando González and Los Infantes de Lara (Lara Lands, Covarrubias, Arlanza, Salas de los Infantes, Sierra de Burgos), Generation of 98 in Burgos (Baroja, Azorín, Manuel and Antonio Machado, Unamuno ,...), the Monasteries Language (Silos, Lerma, Caleruega, Vine), or the route of the writers of the second half of the twentieth century (Delibes, Ridruejo, ...). Positioning
Burgos as Official capital of the English language, as the seat of Congress English language and literature in the field of teaching and research, nationally and internationally. The upcoming completion of the Palacio de Congresos y Auditorio de Burgos can repeat this role for our city. The performance in this area of \u200b\u200bfour major annual conferences and ten other small or medium size in Burgos generate annual presence of 8,000 delegates annually, with an economic impact of 8 million per year.
The impact on the cultural sector, catering and tourism and the province of Burgos, following the declaration of Burgos as the capital of the English language would be extremely positive and reinforce synergies with other vectors of attracting tourists to our city (Cathedral , Camino de Santiago, Atapuerca Sites and Museum of Evolution, Cultural Tourism, Monuments, Natural, Game & Gourmet). An increase of 100,000 tourists a year in the number of visitors to our city and province, would generate economic returns of 25 million euros.
Another complementary aspect, but of unquestionable economic importance would materialize the proposal part of Castile and Leon (PCAL-Burgos) Create the Ministry of the English language, and place it in Burgos, in recognition of the importance of language in our community and to coordinate all activities in this field, as first progress of a claimed administrative decentralization of the institutions of the Castile and Leon as a path to social and territorial structuring of the region. From PCAL-Burgos is claimed Ministry "zero cost", unifying and coordinating services currently scattered in promoting the Castilian, in the Ministries of Economy, Culture, Education, Tourism and Trade Promotion, moving voluntarily to public employees working in these areas to the new Ministry based in Burgos.
Castilian is spoken as a first language by over 440 million people around the world, is the official language in 18 countries and co-official in three others, and is the second most studied language worldwide, by after English. His teaching foreigners in Spain each year generated a turnover of 462 million euros and employs 5,500 people stable, increasing up to 9,500 during the summer months, and is an industry that appeals to 240,000 foreigners a year to Spain, and with enormous growth potential to the growing spread that Castilian experience worldwide, especially in the U.S. and Brazil.
Our language is listed, then upward, is attracting more people and generates more economic returns, cultural and socio-political. Unfortunately, Castilla y León, with the exception of Salamanca, has failed to drive their role in teaching the English language, which created and developed social, cultural and literary. Burgos, which were written in Valpuesta cartulary of 804, where did the word Castilla at 800, where the glosses were created Silos, where expression peaked Ballad (Poem of the Cid, Poema de Fernán González, Poem Seven Infantes de Lara, La Celestina ,...), can not be indifferent to this emerging cultural industry, generating synergies with our spectacular World Heritage Sites (Camino de Santiago, Burgos Cathedral, Atapuerca), the Institute Castilian Language and Leon, with the University of Burgos with our bid for European Capital of Culture 2016.
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