Nevada Tourism Selects Candidates for Director Post

The Nevada Commission on Tourism (NCOT) has selected three candidates to fill the vacant director’s position and will send the names in a letter to the governor, who makes the final choice.

Commissioners made the selection after interviewing five finalists for the position. The NCOT director position has been vacant since Tim Maland resigned in September.

The three finalists are Pasquale Barone, former managing director for global sales at now-defunct Eos Airlines in Purchase, N.Y., and president of PLJC Consulting in Chicago, which created sales and marketing plans for tour operators; Dann Lewis, former project manager for the Transportation and Tourism Research Initiative with the Maine Department of Transportation; and Tom Jensen, a realtor at Windermere Real Estate in South Whidbey Island, Wash., and former president and co-founder of the International Tourism Councils, which develops strategic marketing services for international tourism destinations, including Argentina, Vietnam and Peru.