* cultural performances including sacred rituals are performed to satisfy the need for
authentic experiences of the tourists although entertaining visitors with cultural
performance of rituals is not entirely bad some performances are presented out of
context for staged cultural performances of ethnic songs and dances theme are often
changed and abridged to suit tourists expectation thereby given a false massage to
the visitors in effect cultural performances lose their authenticity moreover cultural
performances are staged even when there are not appropriate occasions to justify them
agricultural rituals , for instance are staged at the wrong times of the year just for
tourist consumption even through local villagers are aware of this cultural travesty
they are encouraged to perform for the financial incentives
offered to them by tourists tour operators and even academic researchers