Travel on the Cheap: 50 Years of Frommer's
Original budget travel writer began long before Lonely Planet, Rick Steeves.

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"Long before Lonely Planet, and Rough Guide and Rick Steeves, there was Arthur Frommer, who exactly 50 years ago published the very first budget travel guide, Europe on $5 A Day. Today his book is called Europe on $95 A Day, times you change. But half a century later, our Gloria Riviera found that Frommer still believes traveller is still best done cheaply."

"It was Uncle Sam that brought me to Europe in the beginning."

In 1955, Arthur Frommer was a 24-year-old GI's, stationed in Germany who couldn't get his buddies to leave the barracks.

"They were scared of leaving the barracks and going into Europe. Europe was a terra incognito. Soldiers, let alone Americans back in the US didn't really know whether European cities, so badly bombed during the war, had survived. Arthur couldn't wait to see them."

"This is me in Europe, began writing and researching Europe on $5 A Day. "

He became an explorer, visiting the Vatican or the Piazza De San Marco in Venice. Places so empty at the time, Arthur says it was just him and the pigeons. European cities were actually more live than ever, but travel agency warned the Americans it would cost an arm and a leg to guarantee a safe trip to Europe.

"Of course I knew all of this was nonsense."

Back then he did not have a lot of money, Arthur says that's what made his trips authentic. When he set out to share his travel-on-the-cheap advice, the first guide book he published sold out.

"It suddenly seemed to ignite a spark and a vast audience of Americans took their courage in their hands and they embarked on the trip to Europe."

Frommer's books let the travelers to tucked-away corners of the countryside, open their markets and slices of real life, far away from expensive tourist traps.

"Today traveling abroad has changed in many ways. But the next generation of Frommer's believes it can still be affordable. Some of the most beautiful sites to experience don't cost a penny. "

"It's clean. It's cheap, and it's so well located."

Arthur's daughter, Pauline is also a travel writer. She found us a room in central London where you can stay for $40 a night.

"There are so many wonderful tricks and places you can stay and affordable ways to travel, that not only allow you to see the world cheaply, but allow you to see it in a more authentic manner."

After all, for the Frommer's, seeing the world is a divine right.

"We should take advantage of that right, which is an extraordinary privilege. and we should travel more often than we now do. 50 years later, Arthur still believes travel on the cheap is just as rich."

Gloria Riviera, ABC News. London.

(Transcribed by flyideal)

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