British-Norwegian couple offers shelter to migrants on Canary Islands

Senegalese migrant Top looks at the view from a hotel room at Holiday Club Puerto Calma in Puerto Rico de Gran Canaria, Spain. Photos: AP

When hotel director Calvin Lucock and restaurant owner Unn Tove Saetran said goodbye to one of the last groups of migrants staying in one of the seaside resorts they manage in Spain’s Canary Islands, the British-Norwegian couple didn’t know when they would have guests again.

They had initially lost their tourism clientele to the coronavirus pandemic, but then things had taken an unexpected turn.