Navan unveiled its new hotel catalog infrastructure designed to solve the industry?s most persistent lodging challenge: inconsistent room and rate information. Navan?s inventory contains 2,600,000 properties, including direct connections to hotel brands like Wyndham, Travelodge UK, and Premier Inn, Global Distribution Service content from Sabre and Amadeus, and Online Travel Agency listings from Expedia, Booking.com, and MakeMyTrip. Navan rebuilt its hotel engine in-house from the ground up, so that the room a traveler sees online is what they find when they walk into the hotel.
Navan has deployed two new pieces of technology: its unified room catalog that organizes and cleans up information for every hotel on the platform, and its room intelligence mapper, an AI-powered tool that acts as a universal translator to turn multiple messy descriptions into one clear, verified listing. Together, they ensure that the complexity of the backend never reaches the traveler?s screen. By making all rate options, from loyalty-point-eligible refundable rates to last-minute deals, available for self-service on a single platform, Navan aims to offer travelers a best-in-class experience in business travel.
This new infrastructure is designed to be a scalable foundation for the future of the Navan lodging marketplace, opening the door for more inventory and direct connections.
