The future of Ouray’s marketing organization is in limbo, as the Ouray Tourism Office remains without an executive director while it waits to see how much a new city council shakes up the city’s approach to promoting itself to visitors.

With just a few weeks left in the year, city councilors have yet to select a vendor to manage the more than $400,000 expected to flow into the city’s tourism fund next year or decide on the length of that contract.

The city earlier this summer issued a requ...