Arthur Frommer passed away. His “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day” travel guides encouraged ordinary Americans to take inexpensive trips overseas, revolutionizing leisure travel. He was 95 years old.
Frommer passed away
According to Pauline Frommer, his daughter, Frommer passed away on Monday due to complications from pneumonia.
In the 1950s, While serving in Europe with the U.S. Army, Frommer started writing about travel.
He self-published “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day” in 1957 after a guidebook he wrote for American servicemen serving abroad sold out, launching what would become one of the most well-known brands in the travel industry.
Arthur Frommer’s Travel Guide
With travel guides to all over the world, a prominent social media presence, podcasts, and a radio show, the Frommer’s brand, now headed by Pauline Frommer, remains one of the most well-known names in the travel sector.
The fact that his writings were popular at a time when flying to Europe was more convenient than taking a ship over the Atlantic didn’t harm.
Frommer’s guidebooks were so widely used that it was once impossible to go to a destination like the Eiffel Tower without seeing them in the hands of other American tourists.