Bermuda’s legislators approved a legal framework for the island’s first-ever Tourism Authority on Friday, Sept. 26, following a long debate, according to local press reports. Bermuda’s Tourism Authority Act will dissolve the island’s existing department of tourism and tourism board in favor of a single agency.

Compensating for a 1.8-percent drop in international visitors, domestic tourism in Cuba grew 12.6 percent in the first seven months of the year compared to the same period in 2012, official magazine Bohemia reported. Revenues from domestic tourism rose 13.9 percent in the same period.