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🚏 Starting December 24, upcoming to January 6, 2026, tourist buses parking in central Rome will face increased rates – three times the current price. The move, targeting the anticipated traffic surge during the Jubilee, encourages parking in peripheral areas with reduced fees. Mayor Roberto Gualtieri aims to promote sustainable mobility and reduce city center congestion, offering tourists €1 daily tickets from peripheral parking zones.

🎲 The "Caccia ai Tesori Arancioni" by Touring Club Italiano starts on Sunday, October 6, in 100 Bandiera Arancione certified villages for its fifth edition. Giulio Lattanzi, General Director, initiated Bandiera Arancioni 26 years ago with the Liguria Region. The event offers thematic pathways: musical heritage, local culinary specialties, and historical reenactments, highlighting Italy's small yet precious cultural and historical heritage, as emphasized by Tourism Minister Daniela Santanchè.

🚀 Enac's Board of Directors met on Friday, September 27, focusing on enhancing the station manager's role, strengthening the security manager's role, and optimizing national airport capacity for Summer 2025. President of Enac, Pierluigi Di Palma, highlighted the goal of innovative, sustainable, and intermodal sector development, fair market competition, and passenger rights. The board strategized on performance analyses of Catania, Bergamo, Verona, Napoli, Bologna, and Palermo airports to minimize passenger inconvenience and delays, and improve system resilience. They also drafted the DDL for ratifying the Cape Town Convention, aiming to boost Italy's aeronautical competitiveness.

🏖️ Gian Marco Centinaio, Italy's former Tourism Minister and current Vice President of the Senate, urges MEPs and Raffaele Fitto to commit to revising the Bolkestein Directive concerning beach concessions. Speaking with Eu24news, Centinaio, from the League's Tourism department, emphasizes the center-right's promise to beach operators to push for the directive's revision in Europe, highlighting the presence of a European Commissioner from their coalition in Brussels. The directive, as seen by the Italian government, is a compromise between the sector's needs and European requirements, but Centinaio insists beach concessions should not be considered services, thus excluded from Bolkestein.