These concerns go to the heart of the debate around how being a world heritage city is also slowly eroding traditional ways here - perhaps inexorably.
For instance, outside Duansavan's home each day some residents can be seen selling food offerings to tourists so that they can give these to the monks during the tak bat (alms - giving) ceremony. Critics say this distorts the message of buddhism, which asks that those who offer alms to monks do so out of true belief in the religion. The underlying economic exchange introduced by the influx of tourism into this religious practice distorts its message, they add.
Some native Luang Prabang residents complain that those who sell such offerings are from the countryside or from the communities on the other side of the Mekong and Khan rivers. "We don't like them doing that because it doesn't seem to be good manners", one resident explains.
There are already unflattering, not to mention inaccurate, descriptions of the ceremony on internet travel sites. For example, one backpacker introduced Luang Prabang and the alms - giving ceremony thus: "Wake up early and watch the monk rice - parade." Such language used does not show respect for the alms ceremony, and it portrays alms offering as part of a cultural 'show' instead of the religious practice that it is.