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There have already been tourist flights to space (eg ISS), plus Virgin already has deposits on suborbital flights. So I would argue the door is open and there's money to be made.

Perhaps the winged approach is not optimal for orbital missions, like to the Virgin hotel, but I can't see why they would turn down scores of paying suborbital trips, for which wings probably make a lot more sense. They might as well keep up the SS2 path to finance the higher goals.