England-born ape, Bili the Bonobo migrates to Germany via Lufthansa Airlines – monkey business class. The three-month old male bonobo will be fostered by a family of German apes after rejected by his mother who fell ill shortly after his birth and has required extensive nursing and medical care. Bili checked in for the Lufthansa flight with special travel documents – including a fake passport – before taking a seat in the cabin alongside a handler from Frankfurt Zoo, who had flown over to accompany him on his unusual journey.

The world’s leading hotel group, IHG, presents an innovation taking travel and tourism to a new level. Through responsible tourism IHG takes into account the interconnected environmental, socio-cultural and economic aspects of tourism and showcasing its best ideas on where the hotel industry can start to implement sustainable practices in the design, development and operation of its hotels. For IHG travel and tourism should be operated responsibly and sustainable and that the benefits for IHG of taking this approach far outweigh the cost.

Singapore Regent’s New Iggys Restaurant bags the “Best Restaurant in Asia” award by Miele Guide – a recently launched work of reference that aspires to be to Asia what the Michelin is to Europe. “I don't serve food that shocks,” says Ignatius Chan, the French-trained sommelier who started the cozy 38-seat restaurant four years ago. Instead, Iggy’s sets forth a gastronomic experience that is an embodiment of iconoclasm - a set eight-course menu, which changes monthly.