Searching application for Southern Thailand Travel Guide on iPhone

Recently, the travel guides have become an important tool to support tourists around the world. The tourists will search the tourist attraction and travel information from the book, brochure or website. In this paper, the searching application for Southern Thailand Travel Guide on iPhone is proposed. The proposed application is developed to search for travel guide information on different provinces of the Southern Thailand. The searching application function is divided into two modes: online and offline mode. The language can be displayed in two languages: Thai and English language. This paper presents the design and implementation by using Apple´s iOS Software Development Kit. The results show that the tourists can search tourist attraction including history, picture, address, phone number, website, map and travel detail. The maps can show the current location of the users. In addition, these maps can display in three modes: standard, satellite and hybrid. Overall information on tourist attraction can be shared on Facebook, Twitter and E-mail. The proposed application is better support for the foreign tourists and Thai tourists that they are used iPhone mobile.