The growth of medical tourism in Thailand attracted many organizations to develop applications for assisting traveler information. However, these applications may not satisfy all traveler's requirements in term of medical, tourism and social network. In consequence, this study has been proposed a new prototype of the mobile social network application to support medical tourist's requirement. The proposed application was designed to improve the quality of information by integrating three types of data: social networks, tourism and medical data from reliable resources such as Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), Facebook, Twitter and Google. The prototype of the application created to run on Windows Phone 7.5 which provides all travelers required information via Restful web services. The prototype test results of three cases in Bangkok area work well.
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