Bloomberg Paul Singer’s activist hedge fund, best known for its jousts with underperforming corporate titans, is about to start selling books in the UK. Elliott Advisors, a unit of Elliott Management Corp., has entered a binding agreement to acquire Waterstones from Alexander Mamut’s Lynwood Investments, the bookseller said in a statement. Waterstones operates a chain of 283 bookshops in the …

MEXICO CITY / WAM The UAE Ambassador to Mexico Ahmed Hatem Al Menhali met with Mexico’s Secretary of Tourism Enrique de la Madrid Cordero in the country’s Ministry for Tourism located in Mexico City, to discuss a number of issues of common interest. The two sides reviewed ways to enhance relations, namely boosting bilateral tourism between the UAE and Mexico …

Dubai / Emirates Business Muslim travellers will spend $157 billion by 2020, driven by millennial travellers and the top outbound market remains Saudi Arabia, which will grow 17 percent over the next three years alone, to reach $27.9 billion. The figures were released during Arabian Travel Market’s Global Halal Tourism Summit 2018, which was held at the Dubai World Trade …