The 19th HCM City Tourism Festival showcased new tourist destinations, tourism products, and services, as well as promotion programmes of Ho Chi Minh City. The festival introduced four new pilot tours to explore different corners of the city, including a tour connecting the city and neighboring Tay Ninh province. The District1- Hoc Mon – Cu Chi – Tay Ninh tour included cultural and historical relic sites of the city and Tay Ninh. The need for HCM City and Tay Ninh to enhance the quality of tourism products and services and design suitable routines to exploit the potential of the destinations is essential for promoting the growth of other sectors. Duong Anh Duc, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee, said that the city would continue to work with other localities to boost tourism development with more joint tourism products and programs while preserving and promoting the cultural and historical values of the nation and calling for more investment in the tourism, transportation, and trade-service sectors. In the first quarter of this year, HCM City welcomed 7.5 million domestic visitors and 1.04 million foreign tourists, earning over 36.11 trillion VND (1.54 billion USD), a surge of 77.2% year on year.