Restricting Spanish holidays to the rich would be ‘disgraceful’, Jet2 boss says

It would be ‘absolutely disgraceful’ if Spain’s efforts to attract wealthy tourists meant ‘being rich’ was a requirement to visit the country, the boss of UK travel giant Jet2 said (Alamy/PA) -

Spain’s efforts to attract wealthy tourists would be “absolutely disgraceful” if they required visitors to be rich to enter the country, the boss of UK travel giant Jet2 has said.

Chief executive Steve Heapy acknowledged some of Spain’s most popular areas have issues with “poor tourism management”, but blamed this on “unlicensed tourism” such as people staying in private accommodation listed on the booking website Airbnb.