On 10th of October the Higher School of Economics organized a forum “Tourism and English for EXPO-2017” the purpose of which was to create a platform for cooperation between the participants of the EXPO – 2017 and interested parties.

The forum was attended by representatives of the National Company Astana EXPO-2017, the Ministry for Investment and Development of Kazakhstan, the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs Atameken, akimat of the city of Astana, the embassies of the Republic of Lithuania, France, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, Indonesia and Macedonia.

During the forum, participants discussed the development of the tourism sector in Astana and the improvement of the English language proficiency for staging the upcoming exposition EXPO-2017 at a high level.

The main problem many speakers identified is that not all of the professionals speak English. In order to be in demand in a competitive world it is important to know several languages. Therefore, there was a call to learn foreign languages.

After all of the speeches there was a job fair held with the participation of the Ministry of Finance, tourism and translation agencies, Alliance of volunteers of Kazakhstan.

We express our sincere gratitude to the speakers of the  forum Saule Bulebayeva, Development and Tourism Department manager of NC Astana EXPO-2017; Marat Igali, Director of Department of Tourism Development  of MID RK; Adomas Davalga, the representative of the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Republic of Kazakhstan; Thomas Huet, the representative of the French Embassy in the Republic of Kazakhstan; Kairat Sadvakassov, the advisor to the Director of the Department of Tourism Industry of MID RK; Camille Paineau, Director of regional development of the school «La Rochelle School of Tourism»; Amantayev Abilov, the representative of  LLP Astana Konvenshn Bureau and Marzhan Traisbayeva, the representative of LLP Visit Kazakhstan.