Menorca Fitur stand: call to bar firms fined over water
For €2,000, a company can take a place on Alaior, Menorca’s stand at the Fitur tourism fair, with no specific rule barring firms fined over building, environmental or water-use breaches. On Monday, 9 November 2026, local group Avançam called for that to change before Fitur 2027. It wants the council to bar sanctioned firms and temporarily exclude those under investigation for the same kinds of breaches.
The dispute centres on the hotel CAP Menorca. In August 2025, Avançam proposed tougher checks on water extraction at rural tourism businesses and an end to council collaboration with businesses that had broken the rules or were under investigation. The People’s Party majority rejected the proposal. Later, the council said CAP Menorca would be left off its Fitur 2026 stand until a case concerning the hotel’s well was resolved.
Avançam spokesperson Isa Allès says the company has since been sanctioned. She wants the council to turn its decision on CAP Menorca into a rule that applies to every firm, rather than leave it as a one-off. The group has asked whether the hotel will be allowed to take part in Fitur 2027; the council’s decision is not yet clear.
Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com