N.S. Robinson, RichardClifford, Cate2024-03-152024-03-152011https://thuvienso.hoasen.edu.vn/handle/123456789/14994Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 571–600, 2012This paper investigates how the medieval festival visitor’s foodservice experience might augment negotiated aspects of event authenticity and prompt revisitation intent. A dualistic authenticity framework is applied to relatively untested aspects of the tourist/visitor experience thus bridging the nexus between tourism, events and hospitality research. A scale to measure various authenticity dimensions of foodservice, drawn from the literature, was designed and administered at an Australian medieval festival. Results revealed significant differences between overall visitor-perceived event authenticity and the foodservice and event servicescape and hygiene factors and found associations between perceived authenticity and revisitation intentions. This research develops a practical checklist of authenticating agents of foodservice and conceptually provides further credence to recent studies advocating reconciliation between the essentialist and existentialist authenticity discourses.enevent management, medieval festival, foodservice, experiences, negotiated authenticity.Article