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Arthur Frommer, founder of the popular Frommer's guidebooks brand and Frommers.com, has died aged 95. Login or signup to continue reading The travel media legend, responsible for the Frommer's guidebook series, died at his home in Manhattan, US, from complications of pneumonia.
"With deep sadness, Frommer's announces the passing of our founder, Arthur Frommer," the Frommers social media pages said. Mr Frommer "democratised travel, showing average Americans how anyone can afford to travel widely and better understand the world", according to his daughter, co-president of FrommerMedia Pauline Frommer. Mr Frommer's first book, Europe on 5 Dollars a Day , published in 1957, revolutionised guidebooks and started the Frommer's series that continues publication today.
Publications include Frommer's London , Frommer's Shortcut Sicily , Frommer's New Zealand and Frommer's Amsterdam day by day . Mr Frommer was a writer, TV and radio host, speaker, and founding editor of Frommers.com , one of the world's first digital travel information sites that launched in 1997.
His daughter said: "I am honored to carry on his work of sharing the world with you, which I proudly do with his team of extraordinary and dedicated travel journalists around the world. We will all miss him greatly." In an article on Frommers.
com called How Travel Changed My Life , Mr Frommer wrote: "Travel has taught me that despite all the exotic differences in dress and language, of political and religious beliefs, that all the world's people are essentially alike. We all have the same urges and concerns, we all yearn for the same goals. "And those who patronise other people, or demonise those with whom we disagree, or regard them as funny or backward, are foolish indeed.
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