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 on Monday.
“My father opened up the world to so many people,” she said. “He believed deeply that travel could be an enlightening activity and one that did not require a big budget.”
Frommer began writing about travel while serving in the US army in Europe in the 1950s. When a guidebook he wrote for US soldiers overseas sold out, he launched what became one of the travel industry’s best-known brands, self-publishing Europe on 5 Dollars a Day in 1957.
“It struck a chord and became…
