Attendees' motivation and emotional satisfaction of cultural festivals: a case study of Ojude Oba Festival, Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria

Cultural festivals and tourism destinations have always attracted interest of different attendees, tourists and adventure makers to satisfy their emotional needs; one of such festivals is Ojude Oba Festival by the Ijebus which provides a medium for educating and re-orienting visitors on their cultural practices in social and economic life, preservation and communicating their cultural heritage to the present and future generations. However, festival attendants air their views on their satisfaction of the festival attended on overall and attribute-limited scales. Quantitative approach was employed in identifying tourists' motivations for attending Ojude Oba Festival, using the questionnaire it can be established through findings of this research that the majority of the attendees are youth whose motivation for attending the festival is majorly cognitive that is, desirous to explore, seeking intellectual development or to acquire information; their emotional feelings show that the majority of the attendees had the feeling of happiness and being joyful mostly with Regberegbe and majority were most surprised with the cultural dancers of various categories.