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Frommer's (/ ˈ f r oʊ m ər z /) is a travel guide book series created by Arthur Frommer in 1957. Frommer's has since expanded to include more than 350 guidebooks in 14 series, as well as other media including an eponymous radio show and a website.
Frommer sold the travel guide book business to Simon & Schuster in 1977, it changed hands a few times, and Frommer eventually reacquired the rights in 2012. [7] In the 1980s, he published Frommer's New World of Travel, which advocated alternative vacation styles, and founded Budget Travel magazine, which he sold to Newsweek. [8]
Arthur Frommer, who rose to fame in the tourism industry after publishing Europe on 5 Dollars a Day in 1957 and later his namesake travel guides, has died. He was 95. The author's family confirmed ...
When he published "Europe on 5 Dollars a Day" in 1957, the young lawyer kicked off a new era in travel, persuading middle-class Americans that London, Paris and Rome weren't just for aristocrats.
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Pioneering travel guidebook writer Arthur Frommer has passed away at the age of 95, according to a statement from the media brand he founded.
NEW YORK (AP) — Arthur Frommer, whose "Europe on 5 Dollars a Day" guidebooks revolutionized leisure travel by convincing average Americans to take budget vacations abroad, has died. He was 95. Frommer died from complications of pneumonia, his daughter Pauline Frommer said Monday. “My father opened up the world to so many people," she said.
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel (1999; published by Intellitravel Media) British Columbia Magazine (1959; My Passion Media) Caravan (1933; Warners Midlands Plc) Caribbean Beat (1992; published by Media and Editorial Projects Limited, inflight magazine of Caribbean Airlines) Condé Nast Traveler (1987; published by Condé Nast Publications ...