Giuridico e Amministrativo

🎨 In 2025, after the coronation of the new king, the UK unveils a yearlong calendar of major events, including Bradford as the Culture Capital and UNESCO's first City of Cinema. London's Curtain Playhouse will open a William Shakespeare museum in spring; Jewry Wall Museum in Leicester reopens in summer. The British Museum will launch the 'Gladiators of Britain' exhibition. The 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth will be celebrated. Musical highlights: Oasis tour through Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh; Kylie Minogue's Tension Tour hits Glasgow, Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, London, Nottingham, Birmingham; Bruce Springsteen in Manchester, Bob Dylan in Liverpool and Nottingham, and Coldplay in London.

🎄 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.

🏠 In 2024, Italy introduced new regulations for vacation rentals requiring a National Identification Code (CIN) for each property and banning self-check-in methods. Properties managing over three units must register as a commercial entity. Fire safety demands 6 kg extinguishers at specific intervals and CE certified gas and carbon monoxide detectors. Guest registration is mandatory within 24 hours of arrival through the Alloggiati Web portal. Professional managers with more than three properties must register for VAT, and income can be taxed through IRPEF or a flat 21% Cedolare Secca. Regional variations in rental periods, additional local licenses, and safety standards apply. Compliance is simplified by automated solutions like Chekin.

🛫 Oman Air launches a second flight from Italy to Muscat, with departures from Rome Fiumicino four times a week: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday at 20:30, arriving at 5:45 local time. Flights are operated with Boeing 737/800, soon to be replaced by Max 8, configured with 3 service classes. The airline aims to boost traffic to Oman from Central and Southern Italy, targeting both business and leisure travelers, and hopes to maintain an 85% load factor.

🏩 Rimini's tourism future is linked to Federico Fellini Airport's growth with British Airways and EasyJet debuting in 2025, announcing 16 routes. British Airways starts in May with three weekly flights from London (Monday, Thursday, Saturday), and EasyJet in April with flights from London and Basel (Wednesday, Sunday). Ryanair offers eight routes including Palermo, Cagliari, London, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Krakow, and Kaunas. Flights from Luxembourg resume in May, Riga and Vilnius in June, and a year-round flight from Tirana with Wizzair. Luxwing connects Monaco during Sigep and works to extend it throughout the summer.

📌 In a landmark tourism-related ruling, the Naples Justice of the Peace issued sentence number 21842 in 2024, condemning a Neapolitan travel agency and tour operator. A Neapolitan family, after facing severe inconveniences during a summer vacation stay in Calabria—including a dirty room, a broken bathroom door, a cracked toilet seat, and a faulty hairdryer—abandoned their holiday. They legally sought compensation for both material damages and psychological distress. The judge upheld the right to compensation for a ruined vacation, covering both economic loss and mental suffering, asserting that tourists need not prove their psychological state to claim damages.