Eugene Fodor's Intriguing Background...Guidebook Innovator; CIA Agent...
 

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/42215999/n.../#.VTfA-SFVhBc

Just came across this article from 2011 that marked Fodor's guides 75th year - in many ways Fodor's guides were the archtype of the modern guidebook - way back in the 1930s Eugene was writing guides for tourists - and here we are in this great forum benefitting from Eugene's efforts.

Eugene Fodor had an amazingly interesting life - let's celebrate his efforts in many ways of launching the modern guide book and his work carries on today with guidebooks and this forum.

Hat's off to Eugene Fodor!

Very interesting, PalenQ! Thank you for posting the link.

I just saw that Frommers is now publishing paper guidebooks again.

Great article - loved this regarding hiring spies: "But I told them to make sure and send me real writers, not civil engineers. I wanted to get some writing out of them. And I did, too"

As you may recall, my wife and I were asked to attend that 75th Anniversary celebration in NYC in 2011. It was jointly sponsored by the Czech tourist office and was a lovely affair. Here is my TR for that fun time with the Fodor's people.

http://www.fodors.com/community/unit...rip-report.cfm s

Thanks for that, bobthenav.

Love "Travel Intelligence" - sounds like the spy connection is still going strong. ;)

PalenQ, thanks for posting this.

<i>"...a website with nearly 2 million unique visitors each month" </i> is a stat about which I'd wondered.