The language of literary tourism and the promotion of "literary' places: The special case of Sherlock Holmes

The literary tourism has developed quickly over time. This kind of tourism has an ancient origin and it only recently has joined the cultural tourism. There are reviews about the background of literary tourism and the different kinds of genres met with their relative language. London is an important example of a city of many authors and places for a lot of works and, in particular, it can be mentioned for the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. His famous address 221B Baker Street has been necessarily created and it brings a lot of tourists curious to visit the apartment built on literary references every year. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was an author, a journalist and a doctor, and he has written many works using different genres. About 60 of them tell the cases of Sherlock Holmes and his roommate John Watson. These are written as journals and it is introduced the science of deduction, that represents the ideals of Victorian time such as resourceful, smart and insightful. It is possible to find many museums and sites around the world dedicated to the detective, but only four of them are remarkable because they recreate the apartment, where the two friends live. These last can be found in Lucens, Meirigen, Minnesota and London. The literary places are an important part of the tourism and especially the people fond of the sleuth require to visit them.