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'Arthur Frommer' (born 1931) is a travel writer, publisher and consumer advocate, and the founder of the Frommer's series of travel guides and ''Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel''[1] magazine. He has published many books for budget-conscious travelers and has been one of America's foremost budget travel authorities since the 1950s. Frommer's seminal book, ''Europe on 5 Dollars a Day,'' changed the way Americans traveled, and foreshadowed such later budget-conscious guidebooks as Lonely Planet and Rick Steves.
Frommer was raised in Jefferson City, Missouri, moving to Brooklyn, New York when he was 14. He graduated from New York University in 1950 with a journalism degree, and graduated second in his class from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. Frommer was drafted into the United States Army during the Korean War, but was posted to Europe.
While serving in Germany, he wrote and self-published a guidebook called ''The GI's Guide to Traveling In Europe'' in 1955. It sold well, and in 1957 Frommer followed up with a civilian version called ''Europe on 5 Dollars a Day'', which covered major European urban destinations. During his vacations while a litigation associate at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, he continued his travel writing and publishing. The first guide books included Europe, New York, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Los Angeles-San Francisco-Las Vegas, expanding through the years to more than 350 titles. In 1961, Frommer founded wholesale tour operator $5-a-Day Tours, Inc. He left law practice in 1962 to pursue his travel business Arthur Frommer International, Inc., of which he was chairman and president until 1981. Frommer sold the travel guide book business to the publishing house Simon & Schuster in 1977. After several subsequent sales, the Frommer’s series was purchased by John Wiley & Sons in 2001.
He preserves a consultant role with Wiley in the Frommer's line of travel guides, leaving time to pursue other projects. Frommer kept a strong commitment to low-budget and alternative travel and to consumer advocacy in travel. In the 1980s, he published ''Frommer's New World of Travel'', which advocated alternative vacation styles, and founded Budget Travel magazine. Frommer is the host of his own radio show on travel which is syndicated to over 100 stations across the United States; he writes a twice weekly column on travel which appears in over 60 newspapers across the US, and recently branched out by creating his own magazine on shopping called ''Arthur Frommer's Smart Shopping''.
Frommer was portrayed by actor Patrick Malahide in the film ''EuroTrip''.
★ Guide book
★ Tourism
★ Frommer's web site
★ Frommer's blog
★ The Travel Show with Arthur Frommer (radio show and podcast)
★ Interview with Arthur Frommer by Rick Steves
★ 50 years since debut of 'Europe on 5 Dollars a Day' (AP via CNN). Retrieved on May 12, 2007
★ "Europe Plain & Simple", ''Time'', July 26, 1963. Retrieved on May 13, 2007
★ Citation for New York University CAS Alumni Achievement Award
| Contents |
| Education and military service |
| Career |
| Portrayal in movies |
| See also |
| External links |
Education and military service
Frommer was raised in Jefferson City, Missouri, moving to Brooklyn, New York when he was 14. He graduated from New York University in 1950 with a journalism degree, and graduated second in his class from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. Frommer was drafted into the United States Army during the Korean War, but was posted to Europe.
Career
While serving in Germany, he wrote and self-published a guidebook called ''The GI's Guide to Traveling In Europe'' in 1955. It sold well, and in 1957 Frommer followed up with a civilian version called ''Europe on 5 Dollars a Day'', which covered major European urban destinations. During his vacations while a litigation associate at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, he continued his travel writing and publishing. The first guide books included Europe, New York, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Los Angeles-San Francisco-Las Vegas, expanding through the years to more than 350 titles. In 1961, Frommer founded wholesale tour operator $5-a-Day Tours, Inc. He left law practice in 1962 to pursue his travel business Arthur Frommer International, Inc., of which he was chairman and president until 1981. Frommer sold the travel guide book business to the publishing house Simon & Schuster in 1977. After several subsequent sales, the Frommer’s series was purchased by John Wiley & Sons in 2001.
He preserves a consultant role with Wiley in the Frommer's line of travel guides, leaving time to pursue other projects. Frommer kept a strong commitment to low-budget and alternative travel and to consumer advocacy in travel. In the 1980s, he published ''Frommer's New World of Travel'', which advocated alternative vacation styles, and founded Budget Travel magazine. Frommer is the host of his own radio show on travel which is syndicated to over 100 stations across the United States; he writes a twice weekly column on travel which appears in over 60 newspapers across the US, and recently branched out by creating his own magazine on shopping called ''Arthur Frommer's Smart Shopping''.
Portrayal in movies
Frommer was portrayed by actor Patrick Malahide in the film ''EuroTrip''.
See also
★ Guide book
★ Tourism
External links
★ Frommer's web site
★ Frommer's blog
★ The Travel Show with Arthur Frommer (radio show and podcast)
★ Interview with Arthur Frommer by Rick Steves
★ 50 years since debut of 'Europe on 5 Dollars a Day' (AP via CNN). Retrieved on May 12, 2007
★ "Europe Plain & Simple", ''Time'', July 26, 1963. Retrieved on May 13, 2007
★ Citation for New York University CAS Alumni Achievement Award
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