{"id":606351,"date":"2026-05-27T09:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606351\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:31:13","slug":"hotel-that-refused-to-give-tourist-tap-water-acted-lawfully-italian-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606351\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel that refused to give tourist tap water acted lawfully, Italian court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Italy&#8217;s highest court has ruled a five-star Dolomites hotel was acting lawfully when it refused to provide tap water to a tourist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The woman unsuccessfully argued that &#8220;water is a natural resource and a universal human right&#8221; after a waiter only offered her \u20ac7 (\u00a36) bottled mineral water at the restaurant of the five-star Hotel Sassongher in Corvara during the 2019 ski season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Italian Supreme Court denied her request for \u20ac2,700 to compensate her for emotional distress and economic damage, Italian media reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Silvio Belardi, the lawyer representing the hotel, is quoted in the newspaper Corriere Alto Adige as saying the court held that &#8220;there is no obligation to supply tap water&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy&#8217;s highest court has ruled a five-star Dolomites hotel was acting lawfully when it refused to provide tap&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-606351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}