This paper seeks to extend existing discussions of post-disaster tourism in New Orleans by considering how competing narratives of disaster operate within the tourist experience available in New Orleans. More specifically, we explore how personal reflections and the collective memories of a community are practiced and mobilised as occasions for tourists to connect with and share in memories of disaster in post-Katrina New Orleans. We suggest that in a city where tourism has long been vital to the economic, social and cultural make-up of the place the power of sharing has emerged through personal narratives, artefacts and experiences that, more than a decade after the disaster, are woven into the tourist experience by individuals such as tour guides, curators of exhibitions, street artists, and participants in anniversary ceremonies.

本文试图通过考虑新奥尔良可用的旅游经验中关于灾害的竞争性叙述如何运作来扩展对新奥尔良灾后旅游的现有讨论。更具体地说，我们探索如何实践和动员社区的个人思考和集体记忆，以作为游客与卡特里娜飓风后新奥尔良发生联系并分享灾难记忆的机会。我们建议，在一个旅游业长期以来对该地区的经济，社会和文化构成至关重要的城市中，分享的力量通过个人的叙述，手工艺品和经历在灾难发生十多年后编织而成导游，展览策展人，街头艺人和周年纪念活动参加者等个人的旅游经历。