Arthur Frommer, Travel Guide Innovator, Has Died At 95
November 19, 2024 12:31PM EST
FILE - Arthur Frommer, 83, and his daughter, Pauline Frommer, 46, pose among tourists in the Wall Street area in New York, May 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — Travel writer Arthur Frommer, who revolutionized leisure travel for ordinary Americans with his guidebook “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day,” has died.
He was 95. His daughter Pauline Frommer said Monday he died from complications of pneumonia.
Frommer self-published the first “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day” in 1957.
It was an expanded version of a guide he’d written for American soldiers stationed overseas.
It became an immediate best-seller.
He told Americans to skip five-star hotels and seek out modest, family-run places where ordinary Europeans stayed when they traveled.
Frommer’s advice coincided with the rise of fast, affordable jet travel.