While many UK holidaymakers will be content this summer with a two-week stay in Spain costing a few hundred pounds, one company is hoping to benefit from the recent uptick in the economy by offering something grander: it is promoting package holidays costing $2m (€1.4m). Per person.

Singapore-based Urbane Nomads has launched what it says is a 16-day package holiday based on the hunting trips of 13th-century Mongol emperor Kublai Khan.