Arthur Frommer, an American who has a net worth of $25 million, is a travel writer, consumer advocate, and publisher.
Arthur Frommer, who was born in Jefferson City, Missouri in 1929, is most famous for creating the Frommer travel guide series and Budget Travel magazine.
When he was 14, he relocated to Brooklyn, New York.
In 1950, he obtained a political science degree from New York University and graduated with distinction from Yale Law School.
During the Korean War, he was conscripted into the United States Army, but was later deployed to Europe.
He wrote and self-published The GI’s Guide To Traveling In Europe in 1955, while serving in Germany.
He founded a wholesale tour operator in 1961, which was initially called $5 a Day Tours, Inc. and later became known as Arthur Frommer International, Inc., and held the position of chairman and president until 1981.
He continues to work as a consultant for Wiley in the Frommer travel guide series, while also taking on other responsibilities.
Along with guidebooks, he has authored hundreds of travel articles and columns that have been published in various magazines, including The Readers Digest, Consumers’ Digest, and New Choices.
Today, he exclusively engages in travel journalism.
Along with publishing Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel magazine and the monthly Secret Bargains newsletter, he continues to write travel books.
Additionally, he presents a weekly radio show on travel, participates as a travel commentator on various TV shows, writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column, and writes regularly for other magazines.
He is widely regarded as the country’s foremost travel guide.
He is a resident of New York City, where he is married to Roberta Brodfeld and has a daughter named Pauline.