Honoring Arthur Frommer, Recipient of the 2008 "Spirit of Hospitality Award"

The 15th Annual DMAI Foundation Dinner & Dream Auction takes place the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 6, at the Washington Convention Center. This year, we are proud to honor Arthur Frommer with the prestigious "Spirit of Hospitality Award." Held in conjunction with Destinations Showcase, this premier event for the tourism industry brings together some 1,000 friends and colleagues for an evening of fine food and camaraderie.

Arthur Frommer is generally acknowledged to be the nation's foremost travel authority. He is the founder of the Frommer travel guides, the author of a twice-weekly newspaper column syndicated by King Features, and host of a nationwide Sunday travel radio program broadcast to more than a hundred stations by the WOR network.

A graduate of the Yale University Law School, his travel career began in 1957 with publication of the best-selling Europe on $5 a Day, which is widely credited with having launched a massive movement by American tourists to Europe. Among the many travel books and guides he has written is The New World of Travel, a Literary Guild selection in 1988, which was an analysis of the entire American travel industry.

The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel recently wrote: "What Benjamin Spock was to babies and Alfred Kinsey was to sex, Arthur Frommer became to travel. Like Spock, he wrote with the authority of experience; like Kinsey, he opened up a whole new world. And while the work of those two men has been eclipsed by others, as well as by changing times and fashions, Frommer remains a powerful, and indefatigable, force in his field."

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