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In recent years, medical tourism has become a good business opportunity to increase the country income by bringing benefit for both health and tourism sectors. The turnover for medical tourism in ASEAN reached 150 trillion Rupiah per year. Information Communication Technology (ICT) itself play an important role in many kinds of sector such as e-commerce by enabling user to access, store, and manipulate information. This study aims to gain a deep understanding of ICT strategic role in succeeding medical tourism. Literature review was conducted from 2 websites, 14 journals, and 3 books by year 2008-2019 in order to find the role of ICT in the pre-procedure and post-procedure of medical tourism. Main healthcare services, such as patient admission, electronic medical record, etc., can be optimized by utilizing ICT. ICT is also necessary for supporting integrated services for both health and tourism providers. It can be concluded that ICT played important strategic role in medical tourism. Adequate infrastructures, human resources, and standard need to be improved first to maximize ICT in medical tourism implementation.