frommer country of origin united states distribution worldwide official website www.frommers.com frommer s is a travel guidebook series created by arthur frommer . frommer s has expanded to include more than 350 guidebooks across 14 series as well as other media including the website frommers.com . in 2007 frommer s celebrated its 50th anniversary of guidebook publishing . 1 since may 2007 arthur frommer has been actively blogging about travel 2 on the frommers.com website . contents 1 history 2 guidebook series 3 in popular culture 4 references 5 external links history edit in 1957 arthur frommer a young corporal in the u.s. army wrote a travel guide for american gis in europe and then produced a civilian version called europe on 5 a day . 3 the book ranked popular landmarks and sights in order of importance and included suggestions on how to travel around europe on a budget . it was the first travel guide to show americans that they could afford to travel in europe . arthur frommer returned to the united states and began practicing law . during that time he continued to write and also began to self publish guidebooks to additional destinations including new york mexico hawaii japan and the caribbean . in 1977 frommer s trademark was sold to simon & schuster inc. pearson bought the reference division of simon & schuster in 1998 and sold it to idg books in 1999 . john wiley & sons acquired idg books renamed hungry minds in 2001 . arthur s daughter pauline frommer is now writing her own series of travel guidebooks and continuing the frommer s travel legacy . 1 4 on august 13 2012 it was announced that google will be acquiring frommer s for an undisclosed sum of money and will be merging operations with google s zagat business . 5 on march 2013 it was reported that google ended the manufacturing of frommer s guidebooks . 6 on april 2013 it was announced that the frommer s brand has been reaquired by arthur frommer and his daughter pauline frommer . 7 he scheduled october that year to release the next batch of guidebooks . as of july 2013 arthur frommer struck a deal with publishers group west to distribute and promote frommer s books . 8 guidebook series edit more than 75 million books have been sold since frommer s inception in 1957 . citation needed over 350 titles are available in the following series citation needed frommer s complete guides frommer s with kids frommer s day by day for over 70 travel destinations frommer s portable guides frommer s irreverent guides frommer s memorable walks frommer s phrasefinder & dictionaries frommer s driving tours pauline frommer s guides the unofficial guides for dummies travel guides suzy gershman s born to shop guides frommer s national park guides mtv travel guides in popular culture edit frommer s guidebooks are represented in the 2004 comedy eurotrip when one of the main characters jamie uses it to guide a group of teenagers around europe . jamie later gets a job with frommer s at the end of eurotrip . in the opening scene of 2003 s charlie s angels full throttle cameron diaz enters a mongolian beer shack holding a frommer s guidebook . a copy can also be seen near the beginning of the 2008 film jumper . complete references from the frommer s guide book for traveling around the world can be seen in the movie last stop for paul . references edit notes a b harpaz beth j. 2007 05 13 . arthur frommer guidebooks 50 years old . oakland tribune . retrieved 2009 06 09 . dead link arthur frommer online . retrieved 8 august 2009 . leo jen . on the spot arthur frommer s tips on finding cheap airfares . los angeles times travel . retrieved 2009 06 09 . jewish women international travel tips from an expert pauline frommer by laurie heifetz november 2011 google to buy frommer s travel brand august 2012 clampet jason 21 march 2013 . google is quietly pulling the plug on frommer s print travel guidebooks . business insider . retrieved 4 august 2015 . google sells frommer s guides business back to founder . bbc news . 4 april 2013 . retrieved april 5 2013 . bosman julie 14 july 2013 . sold back to its founder frommer s to publish anew . the new york times . retrieved 4 august 2015 . external links edit frommers.com official site frommers.com podcast travel podcasts retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title frommer % 27s & oldid 740440531 categories travel guide books1957 introductionshidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2010all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from august 2008 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload 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