Arthur Frommer
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Author |
| Introduction | Arthur Frommer is generally acknowledged to be the nation's foremost travel authority. He is the founder of the Frommer travel guides, the author of a twice-weekly newspaper column syndicated by King Features, the host of a nationwide Sunday travel radio program broadcast to more than a hundred stations by the WOR network. A graduate of the Yale University Law School, his travel career began in 1957 with publication of the best-selling <i>Europe on $5 a Day</i>, which is widely credited with having launched a massive movement by American tourists to Europe. Among the many travel books and guides he has written is <i>The New World of Travel</i>, a Literary Guild selection in 1988, which was an analysis of the entire American travel industry. About him, the <i>Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel</i> recently wrote: "What Benjamin Spock was to babies and Alfred Kinsey was to sex, Arthur Frommer became to travel. Like Spock, he wrote with the authority of experience; like Kinsey, he opened up a whole new world. And while the work of those two men has been eclipsed by others, as well as by changing times and fashions, Frommer remains a powerful, and indefatigable, force in his field." |