Ethni-CITY: The New Travel App

If you're chronically online like I am, you're used to seeing tons of reels of people who travel to all these "authentic" destinations: Sao paulo, Marrakech, Cairo, Bangkok, and Bali. On Instagram or TikTok, it's pretty common to accompany your posts with a soundtrack, and it's the norm to post the latest trending songs to garner likes and reposts. No shame here. We all want validation, but so do the local economies we're coming from, and they hardly benefit when our money goes to international hotel chains and global brands. However, there are a few ways we can support locals while still making sure your pics eat, and one of them is by supporting local artists. With Ethni-CITY, we connect your pics to the local artists of the countries you visit to curate a niche storyboard that puts artists' songs on your posts, helping them monetize their craft, gain recognition, and in turn boost their micro-economy as your pics garner likes. To build this, I weaved spatial data with cultural analy