This will obviously restrict the destination to the richest and not fair for the tourists, but from the host country it’s definitely a way of limiting the number of tourists while extracting the maximum value from each of them.
But that I can fly there for 20€ from germany, this is nuts. So maybe the solution is to stop subsidizing flying (taxfree kerosin etc)
I paid 290€ from Frankfurt 4 weeks ago.
(Or just check ryanair directly)
No idea if copying the link just works, but here it offers me flights starting from 14€ for this month.
https://www.skyscanner.de/transport/fluge/de/tfs/?adults=1&a...
Not that I recommend flying with them. They are cheap. And I like it save (and have ethical concerns about unnecessary flights). But many people use that bargain to fly so cheap for just a few days and then head back.
And I have to say, in winter in germany it is tempting.
They simply have the wrong kind of tourists.
The local airport authority already has to decide how many slots are made available and allocate them, so there's no additional admin overhead.
Do the richest tourists contribute to the local economy the most anyway? Or is it more like they spend lots of money with multinational companies (e.g. big fashion brands) that ultimately pay tax/have suppliers elsewhere?