Modern Travel · event 6 of 19

1957

Europe on 5 Dollars a Day. Arthur Frommer’s guide assumes a reader who will arrange their own trip on a modest budget. It sells in enormous numbers and helps create independent budget travel as a category distinct from the package tour.

The Modern Travel era

  1. 1900
  2. 1903
  3. 1930s
  4. 1936
  5. 1950
  6. 1957
  7. 1958
  8. 1960s
  9. 1962
  10. 1973
  11. 1978
  12. 1985
  13. 1989
  14. 1994
  15. 2001
  16. 2008
  17. 2016
  18. March 2020
  19. 2024

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