As industry leaders gather for the 70th International Air Transport Association Annual General Meeting in Doha many are also beginning to look back on a century of scheduled commercial aviation. Nearly everything has changed since the first scheduled commercial flight, in Florida on January 1st 1914, but the desire to connect the world remains as strong as ever. Here Breaking Travel News looks back at 100 years of scheduled commercial aviation.

All eyes are on Doha this weekend as the International Air Transport Association hosts it Annual General Meeting in capital Doha. Delegates will be welcomed to one of the most rapidly developing tourism destinations anywhere on earth, with billions of dollars presently pouring into the hospitality sector there. One man more than any other, H.E. Issa bin Mohammed Al Mohannadi, chairman of the Qatar Tourism Authority, has been responsible for guiding this process. Here Breaking Travel News takes a look at the man behind the emergence of Doha, and Qatar, as a world class tourism destination.

Over the next few days Qatar will showcase some of its impressive cultural developments to aviation industry leaders who have gathered in Doha for the IATA Annual General Meeting. Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, chairperson of Qatar Museums, Doha Film Institute and Reach Out to Asia, has been among some of the thought leaders who have helped to create an exciting future for the stunning destination.

With the 70th International Air Transport Association Annual General Meeting now just days away, Breaking Travel News here takes a look back at the 2013 event in Cape Town. Top of the agenda last year were concerns about emissions, with the IATA AGM unanimously backing a call for an emissions market to offset growth in their greenhouse gases after 2020.

Derek Hanekom has been appointed to the position of minister of tourism in South Africa, replacing outgoing Marthinus van Schalkwyk. van Schalkwyk has been a popular minister in the role, with the surprise moved announced earlier. Re-elected South African president Jacob Zuma has been keen to overhaul his government, with the appointment of ministers in the key areas of transport, public enterprises and the establishment of a new ministry for small business development taking place in recent days.

Phil Blizzard here speaks with Donald Trump, chairman and president, The Trump Organisation, who had just flown with his daughter Ivanka into Dubai onboard their private jet – a Boeing 757. Landing at Al Maktoum International Airport at Dubai World Central, the purpose of their visit was to inspect the progress of the development of The Trump International Golf Course.