BOSTON — Kate Fox, the previous government director of Vacation spot Salem, was lately named the brand new government director of the Massachusetts Workplace on Journey and Tourism. She assumed her new place June 12.

At Vacation spot Salem within the Workplace of Tourism & Cultural Affairs in Salem, Fox oversaw advertising efforts in help of tourism, which is a key element of town’s economic system that generates greater than $140 million in native expenditures for town yearly.

Fox was a member of town’s Financial Improvement Restoration & Revitalization Process Pressure, which was established in March 2020 to give attention to enterprise and neighborhood help through the pandemic. She additionally served on the board of administrators for the Salem Chamber of Commerce, the Salem Fundamental Streets Steering Committee, and was a commissioner for the Essex Nationwide Heritage Fee. She was beforehand president of the North of Boston Conference & Guests board of administrators and is a North Shore LEADS Fellow.

Fox lives in Beverly and holds a bachelor’s diploma in English with a minor in non secular research from William Smith Faculty.