Navan Enhances Direct Connection With Booking.com to Expand Global Lodging Inventory and Deliver Greater Savings for Business Travelers
Navan, the leading all-in-one platform for business travel, payments, and expense management, today announced a significantly enhanced direct connection with Booking.com. The expanded partnership unlocks broader global lodging inventory, deeper discounts, and a more seamless booking and payment experience for business travelers through an advanced API integration.
The enhanced connection strengthens Navan’s mission to simplify business travel while delivering measurable savings and greater choice for companies of all sizes. By deepening its direct integration with Booking.com, Navan is giving travel managers, finance teams, and employees access to more properties, better rates, and improved visibility—without sacrificing policy compliance or control.
Meeting the Evolving Needs of Modern Business Travel
As business travel continues to rebound and evolve, organizations are demanding greater flexibility, wider lodging options, and clearer cost controls. Traditional corporate travel programs, often limited to a narrow set of hotel chains and negotiated rates, no longer meet the needs of a distributed and mobile workforce.
Employees are traveling to secondary cities, remote project sites, and emerging markets more frequently than ever. At the same time, finance teams are under pressure to manage costs, enforce policies, and ensure accurate reporting across increasingly complex travel programs.
Navan’s enhanced direct integration with Booking.com directly addresses these challenges by combining Booking.com’s expansive global lodging marketplace with Navan’s intelligent travel, payment, and expense management platform.
Expanded Inventory, Wherever Work Takes You
Through the updated integration, business travelers now gain access to additional lodging properties directly within the Navan platform, significantly expanding available options across regions and property types. The added inventory is particularly impactful in “off-the-beaten-path” destinations, where Booking.com’s global reach and depth of supply far exceed traditional corporate travel inventories.
From small towns to emerging business hubs, travelers can find accommodations that meet both company policy and personal preferences—all without leaving the Navan ecosystem.
For travel managers and finance departments, this expanded inventory means greater confidence that compliant lodging options are always available, even in locations where hotel availability may be limited. For travelers, it means fewer compromises and a smoother booking experience, regardless of destination.
Simplified Oversight for Travel and Finance Teams
Beyond expanding traveler choice, the enhanced integration improves oversight and control for organizations managing business travel at scale.
By bringing more Booking.com inventory directly into Navan, companies can centralize bookings, payments, and expenses in a single platform. Travel managers gain clearer visibility into where employees are staying, while finance teams benefit from consistent data, automated reconciliation, and simplified reporting.
This unified approach reduces leakage from off-platform bookings, ensures adherence to company policies, and supports smarter decision-making across the travel program.
Unlocking Greater Savings Through Direct Connectivity
A core benefit of the enhanced partnership is access to meaningful, built-in savings. Through the deepened integration, Navan customers can take advantage of Booking.com’s closed-user group pricing, which includes:
- Loyalty-based discounts
- Mobile-exclusive rates
- Seasonal and regional promotions
These discounted rates can also be combined with Booking.com’s Mobile Discounts, delivering even greater savings directly to Navan customers. By surfacing these offers within Navan’s platform, companies can reduce lodging spend without requiring travelers to hunt for deals or book outside approved channels.
The result is a travel program that balances traveler satisfaction with strong financial outcomes—directly benefiting a company’s bottom line.
A More Reliable, Friction-Free Booking Experience
The enhanced API integration also improves the reliability of the booking and payment process. By connecting directly to Booking.com’s most advanced API, Navan reduces common pain points such as rejected cards, missing booking details, or confirmation delays.
This streamlined connection helps ensure that every reservation is confirmed accurately and efficiently, minimizing disruptions for travelers and administrative headaches for support teams.
For organizations managing high travel volumes, fewer booking errors translate into lower support costs, improved traveler confidence, and a smoother end-to-end experience.
Designed for the Future of Business Travel
Booking.com’s powerful API provides a foundation for future enhancements within the Navan platform. Potential features include new ways to identify and surface accommodations that are particularly well-suited for business travel, such as a “work-friendly” tag for non-hotel properties.
This capability could make it easier for business travelers to find lodging options that offer reliable Wi-Fi, dedicated workspaces, flexible check-in, and other amenities critical to productivity—especially for longer stays or remote work scenarios.
By investing in a flexible, forward-looking integration, Navan and Booking.com are positioning their partnership to evolve alongside the changing needs of modern work and travel.
Leadership Perspective: More Value in Every Trip
Navan leadership emphasized that the enhanced integration is about delivering tangible value—not just expanding inventory.
This new connection with Booking.com isn’t just about adding more rooms to Navan’s already expansive inventory; it’s about adding more value to every business trip for every company,” said Dane Molter, Senior Vice President of Navan Group Travel Marketplace. “With discounts and perks on eligible stays, we’re offering concrete savings and more choices that directly benefit a company’s bottom line, which is a win for everyone.”
By leveraging Booking.com’s most advanced API, Navan is able to combine breadth of choice with cost efficiency—two priorities that are often at odds in traditional travel programs.
Booking.com: Expanding Choice for Business Travelers
From Booking.com’s perspective, the enhanced partnership with Navan represents an opportunity to bring its vast, work-friendly inventory to a broader audience of business travelers.
Through our partnership with Navan, we’re expanding business travelers’ choices by giving them access to our expansive inventory of work-friendly hotels and homes,” said Thibaut Leroux, Director of Commercial Partnerships at Booking.com. “Together, we’re making it easier for business travelers to book the right stay, backed by our global coverage and competitive rates.”
By integrating directly into Navan’s platform, Booking.com can deliver its inventory in a way that aligns with corporate travel requirements, while still preserving the flexibility and choice travelers expect.
Supporting a More Flexible, Distributed Workforce
The enhanced Navan–Booking.com integration comes at a time when work is more distributed than ever. Employees are traveling for hybrid meetings, project-based assignments, and extended stays that don’t always fit neatly into traditional hotel models.
By expanding access to a wider range of properties—including alternative accommodations—companies can better support diverse travel needs while maintaining control over spend and compliance.
This flexibility is particularly valuable for global organizations with employees traveling across regions, time zones, and infrastructure environments.
A Strategic Step Forward for Corporate Travel Programs
The deeper connection between Navan and Booking.com reflects a broader shift in corporate travel: away from rigid, one-size-fits-all programs and toward dynamic, data-driven platforms that prioritize both control and choice.
By unifying inventory expansion, savings opportunities, streamlined payments, and future-ready capabilities, Navan is helping companies modernize their travel programs without adding complexity.
For travel managers, finance leaders, and business travelers alike, the enhanced integration represents a more efficient, cost-effective, and user-friendly approach to business lodging.
As Navan and Booking.com continue to invest in their partnership, customers can expect ongoing enhancements that further simplify booking, improve savings, and adapt to the evolving nature of work and travel.
By combining Booking.com’s global reach with Navan’s intelligent travel and expense platform, the two companies are redefining what’s possible in business travel—making it easier for organizations to support their teams wherever work takes them, while keeping costs under control.
In a world where flexibility, transparency, and efficiency are paramount, the enhanced Navan–Booking.com connection delivers on all three.
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