14 Quotes by Arthur Frommer

My favorite place in the whole world is the city of Paris. to me, Paris stands at the frontier of every major category of travel – in food, art, theater, history, in so many different areas that I simply don’t get tired of it.

Once abroad, I eat one meal a day picnic-style: Ive learned that no mature stomach can tolerate an endless routine of rich restaurant meals.

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.

My favorite place that I’ve been to that most people haven’t been to is the Golden Triangle in the northeast of Thailand, which is inhabited by people as if in the Stone Age, without any form of power, without running water, simply living in huts on stilts.

I regard Paris as a feast for the eyes, the senses and brain. It is a phenomenal city.

I always feel depressed when I go into a country under dictatorial rule.

Tourism does not go to a city that has lost its soul.

Luckily you cannot get to the Golden Triangle in a bus. You can only access it on your own two feet!

I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country that is under the thumb of a dictator.