Doha / WAM Qatar’s tourism and hospitality industry is building momentum as it enters the second half of the decade, with an ambitious target of four million visitors by 2020, supported by US$40-45 billion worth of sector investment under the country’s National Tourism Sector Strategy 2030 plan. The Gulf state returns to ATM this year to showcase its expanding hotel …

CARACAS / Bloomberg Venezuela boosted gasoline prices for the first time in almost two decades and devalued its currency as President Nicolas Maduro attempts to address triple-digit inflation and the economy’s deepest recession in over a decade. The primary exchange rate used for essential imports, such as food and medicine, will weaken to 10 bolivars per dollar from 6.3, Maduro …

Bloomberg Brazil’s economy shrank less than forecast in December, capping a year when Latin America’s largest nation entered its worst recession in decades. The seasonally adjusted economic-activity index, a proxy for gross domestic product, decreased 0.52 percent in December from the previous month, after falling a revised 0.64 percent in November, the central bank said on Thursday. The median estimate …