Spanish for the tourism sector in Cambodia and Burma<

Spanish for the tourism sector in Cambodia and Burma

Desde hacía varios años me rondaba la cabeza estudiar el curso de profesor de español como lengua extranjera. Soy periodista, vengo de la rama de letras puras (esa de latín y griego, de la antigua EGB y bachiller) y mi mayor hobbie es viajar.

Three years ago I was in Cambodia and whilst travelling round

some remote islands in the south of Shianoukville in a boat I bumped into a young girl from Gran Canaria who had been travelling through most of South-East Asia alone for three months, I asked her what money she was supporting herself with to carry out a trip which seemed to have no ending, she told me  with total calmness that she was giving Spanish classes for natives.

In all of South-East Asia, and particularly in Cambodia and Burmia, tourism is becoming one of the main sources of income, apart from tourism coming from Australia and New Zealand Tourism from Spanish speaking countries is increasing at a very rapid rate.

I had the pleasure of meeting several tour guides who were carrying out the journey through Cambodia in Spanish, they told me that for them it was an added value because they could  deal with  more tourists, giving them a more professional service that directly resulted in increased income.

In all the trips I have carried out I have always been very curious and if I have been able to I have visited the Cervantes Institutes that there are around the world, we have a very powerful language and culture with which together with English you can go round almost every country.

On the return flight home I was thinking about carrying out this course because we never know what the future has in store for us and if in the future I am living abroad I will always have a diploma as a teacher of Spanish as a Foreign Language.


For me it has been a very pleasant and very well structured course which has made us have a global and schematic vision of how we can structure a Spanish class.


Now to put it into practice.

Thank you