Spain, February 20, 2013 - The Minister of Employment and the Economy of the regional government, Carmen Home, said hole that "the government of Maria Dolores Cospedal bet for quality tourism, adapted to the future and generates wealth and employment, hand of the many travel trade is in Castile-La Mancha. "
Carmen Home at a press conference I

During an interview on the national program "People Traveling" Onda Cero, Home recalls the commissioning by the Regional Government Plan Investment and Job Creation "which has in tourism one of its big bets, with agriculture, infrastructure development and trade. "

In this regard, stressed that "tourism is now 12 percent of our gross domestic product and employs over 42,000 people," why, he added, "we are focusing our efforts on a sector powerful and dynamic tourist typologies still have long way to go in our region. "

As example, Homemade wine tourism has quoted, "in a region that has 50 percent of the vineyards in Spain and 20 percent in Europe" industrial tourism in places like the Almaden mining complex, recently declared Heritage of humanity, gastronomic tourism, to promote products such as cheese, saffron from La Mancha, the Pedroñeras garlic, aubergines from Almagro, olive oil, etc., or hunting tourism and shopping or crafts to promote economic activity in many rural areas. "

Strategic Tourism Plan
Furthermore, the Minister of Employment and the Economy has announced that the Government will shortly present the Strategic Tourism Plan, a working document, as explained, "mark the lines of action and development of the sector in the coming years" .

In this sense, explained that this plan will be based "on innovation and professionalism in the sector, with specific steps and scheduled for the empowerment of Castilla-La Mancha as a single destination and the many products we can offer our region at large public. "

To achieve these objectives, the Government of Castilla-La Mancha will maintain its commitment to traditional tourism concepts, such as nature tourism, with emblematic spaces as our two nature-Cabañeros and Daimiel tables-and the cultural tourism, with Toledo, Cuenca, Almaden and the cave paintings of the Mediterranean Arc as reference sites.

Furthermore, as has highlighted the Minister of Employment and Economy, will opt for language tourism development for learning Spanish in the region birthplace of Don Quixote, the commemorations, with the next round of El Greco 2014, the health and well-being can offer our spas or rural tourism development, in line with the commitment of the Government of Spain to promote domestic tourism as a destination.

This, added Casero, the regional government is betting on the dual-talent training ", or what is the same," go for the professionalization of the sector to achieve even better results than we have today. "

Tourist Office of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo

So Home has referred to the recent opening of the Tourist Office of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo, "the first of the new model that we will develop in the rest of the region, ie a place where not only information is delivered on paper, but actually is a promotion run by professionals, a space in which our artists and artisans to showcase the differentiating elements of our region, in short, a place of true promotion of tourism. "

Finally, it welcomed the recent demonstration of the importance of tourism in Castilla-La Mancha in the International Tourism Fair held in Madrid makes few dates. "All have both highlighted the successful presence of Castilla-La Mancha and the large number of contacts and agreements that have been conducted with professionals from countries like Mexico, China, Japan, United States, Argentina, England and Chile, to name just a few examples, "he emphasized.