Highlights: Exclusion tourism is a form of niche tourism where the tourist visits Exclusion Zones; these exclusion zones are places where the tourist projects utopic or dystopic futures from films and books; there is an apocalyptic dimension to this tourism found in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and the Montserrat volcano exclusion zone examined in this chapter.

Overview - This chapter examines venues that had been destroyed or abandoned but in their apocalyptic ruin have emerged as conflicted tourist attractions associated with science fiction. There is no doubt that post-apocalyptic landscapes are particularly attractive for science fiction texts (books, films and video games). As tourist destinations, they elicit reactions of emptiness, unevenness, loss and desolation that are counterbalanced by awe, fascination and a sublime enjoyment that Manjikian (2012) refers to as ‘the romance of the end’. The apocalyptic – whether ‘man-made’ or ‘natural’ – are dystopic locations where the future subjunctive can be played out by temporary visitors who court the uniqueness of their exclusion.