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.
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- Arthur Frommer, known for his European travel guidebooks, died at the age of 95 from complications of pneumonia, his daughter Pauline said Monday. In addition to Pauline, Frommer’s survivors include his second wife, Roberta Brodfeld, and four grandchildren
- Frommer began writing about travel while serving in the U.S. Army in Europe in the 1950s. When a guidebook he wrote for American soldiers overseas sold out, he launched what became one of the travel industry’s best-known brands, self-publishing “Europe on 5…
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