As part of its new contract with the City of The Dalles to continue to provide tourism marketing services, The Dalles Area Chamber of Commerce will be hiring a tourism director.  Chamber CEO Lisa Farquharson says the position doesn’t have a name yet, but it has a job description.  It includes overseeing tourism marketing under the new contract, supervising a “tourism team,” and involvement in a new campaign being put together.  In addition, Farquharson says they will be working with the City in putting together a tourism committee made up of people involved with businesses that are dependent on the tourist business.  Farquharson adds the goal of the effort is to take tourism in The Dalles to a new level.