J. Spencer Kinard, former vice president and news director for KSL-TV and for 18 years announcer for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's broadcast of "Music and the Spoken Word," has been named assistant director of the Utah Travel Council.
Kinard, most recently assistant general manager of KJZZ-TV, will manage the UTC's domestic tourism operation.Ruth Kurzbauer - a former assistant director, Center for International Business Education and Research at the University of Utah, a former U.S. diplomat in Europe and Asia and former foreign service officer of the U.S. Information Agency - was named assistant director over the international operation.
"Spence and Ruth are two very talented and skilled people who bring new ideas, abilities and insights to what we are trying to achieve at the Travel Council," said Dean Reeder, director
Reeder said the council has begun formulating a tourism master plan that seeks to keep visitors longer in Utah and provide them a higher quality visit. "Ruth and Spence will play a vital role" in that effort, he said.