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🎄 Cinecittà World in Rome offers a shuttle service from 5 PM to 8 AM for its New Year's Eve festivities. The theme park features 40 attractions, 8 themed dinners, 10 live shows, concerts, and DJ sets of various music genres, including a techno festival, Amore 025 NYE, with 60 artists. Activities include a children's New Year's Eve, 'Capodanno sul Ghiaccio' for families, and 'Gran Galà di Capodanno'. Oriental World runs until January 6, showcasing over 200 Chinese lantern installations.

🌍 European Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra proposes kerosene tax for airlines and a 'carbon price' for non-EU carriers to combat pollution, paralleling the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. Currently, airlines pay no fuel tax despite aviation being responsible for 4% of the EU's greenhouse gas emissions and 13.9% of transport emissions. The proposal aims to boost the Green Deal's target of reducing transport emissions by 90% by 2050. Southern European countries and IATA's Willie Walsh express concerns over potential fare increases and question the environmental efficacy of the tax.

🚀 Jeju Air's flight, after a fatal incident killing 179 on December 29, faced similar landing gear issues, causing a return to Gimpo Airport, South Korea, on December 30. The B737-800 took off at 6:37 local time and landed back at 7:25. Jeju Air operates 39 B737-800s out of a fleet of 41 aircraft.

🏖️ Over 340 million euros allocated for tourism by 2025, with nearly 800 million in the long term, as per Italy's new Budget Law directed by the Ministry of Tourism. Tourism Minister Daniela Santanchè praised the government Meloni for unprecedented sector support to enhance competitiveness and innovation, including tax reductions on tips and for night and holiday work. Notably, over 260 million euros are dedicated to night and overtime work, and development contracts. Additionally, a yearly increase of 100,000 euros for 2025-2027 is set for strategic promotion and innovation in tourism.

💰 Aica and Federturismo renewed the national collective labor agreement on December 21. The agreement, which starts on January 1, 2025, and lasts for three years, foresees a €200 base pay increase for employees on the C2 level, distributed in four tranches, and in five tranches for travel, tourism, and congress firms. It also includes a one-off comprehensive indemnity of €450 (€320 for travel, tourism, and congress companies) covering the period since negotiations stalled in July until the first tranche of the economic increase. The agreement aims to ensure stability and competitiveness in the tourism industry while safeguarding employees' professionalism.