Arthur Frommer, travel guide innovator, has died at 95

Travel writer Arthur Frommer, who revolutionized leisure travel for ordinary Americans with his guidebook “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day,” has died. He was 95. His daughter Pauline Frommer said Monday he died from complications of pneumonia. Frommer self-published the first “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day” in 1957. It was an expanded version of a guide he’d written for American soldiers stationed overseas. It became an immediate best-seller. He told Americans to skip five-star hotels and seek out modest, family-run places where ordinary Europeans stayed when they traveled. Frommer’s advice coincided with the rise of fast, affordable jet travel.