Canary Islands hotel offers shelter to migrants in need

Senegalese migrant Fode Top looks at the view from the hotel room at Holiday Club Puerto Calma in Puerto Rico de Gran Canaria, Spain (Renata Brito/AP)

When a British-Norwegian couple said goodbye to one of the last groups of migrants staying in one of the seaside resorts they manage in Spain’s Canary Islands, they did not know when they would have guests again.

Hotel director Calvin Lucock and restaurant owner Unn Tove Saetran had initially lost their tourism clientele to the coronavirus pandemic, but then things had taken an unexpected turn.