Mario Hardy

Dr Mario Hardy

Dr Mario Hardy

Mario Hardy was appoin­ted Chief Exec­ut­ive Officer of the Pacific Asia Travel Asso­ci­ation (PATA) in Novem­ber 2014. He has also served as Chair­man of the PATA Found­a­tion.

With long exper­i­ence in avi­ation-related busi­nesses, data ana­lyt­ics, tech­no­logy, and cor­por­ate lead­er­ship, Dr Hardy is the founder of Ven­ture Cap­it­al firm MAP2 | Ven­tures, a tech­no­logy-cent­ric invest­ment fund. He is an advisor for and share­hold­er in more than 15 privately-owned tech­no­logy busi­nesses spread over four con­tin­ents and serves on numer­ous industry advis­ory boards.

Mario has also writ­ten for The “GT” Travel Blog.

Who dares wins: Who will hit the reset button?

May 22, 2020

Push to reset the world. By Jose Antonio Gallego Vázquez (CC0) via unsplash.

A “GT” Insight into the mind of the man who leads one of the world’s sig­ni­fic­ant travel & tour­ism industry organ­isa­tions: Dr Mario Hardy, chief of the Pacific Asia Travel Asso­ci­ation. What does he think about the crisis in which our industry finds itself? Over the past few months, we are reminded every day that […]

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