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Arthur Frommer, travel guide innovator, has died at 95

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Arthur Frommer's " Europe on 5 Dollars a Day" guidebooks revolutionized leisure travel.

Frommer died from complications of pneumonia, his daughter Pauline Frommer says.

"My father opened up the world to so many people," she says.

The Frommer brand, led by his daughter, remains one of the best-known names in the travel industry.

Frommer wrote "The GI 's Guide to Traveling in Europe " He had 5,000 copies printed by a typesetter in a German village.

Eventually he gave up law to write the guides full-time.

His daughter Pauline gradually became the force behind the company, promoting the brand.

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