Barrington, Illinois: Group travel spending is the fastest rising T & E expenditure, running at 10% annually. To help manage these costs, Trondent Development Corp. recently launched a product that provides corporate and agency planners critical data for group air budgeting, saving valuable planner time, historically spent on destination research and analysis.

According to Lana Parro, Trondent's COO, several agency, corporate and meeting management clients approached the software company, expressing the need for a fast and real-time, group air costing system. Trondent's GroupFARE Analyzer was developed to quickly process an unlimited number of variables including multiple destination options, over 1500 originating worldwide markets, attendee counts and various airfare alternatives to determine the most cost-effective meeting destination.

What is unique about the product is that data is pulled from the GDS, versus static databases, for real-time analysis and the user has the flexibility to conduct "what if " scenarios, applying up to eight different fare categories that include negotiated group and corporate airfares.

Trondent Development Corp. is a leading third party provider of software solutions to the travel industry. Trondent products are compatible with all major GDS and are utilized by agency, meeting management and corporate organizations worldwide.

For more information on Trondent products, contact Lana Parro at (847) 277-0800.