Navan Buys BoomPop to Push Into Meetings and Events

Skift Take A public travel company growing 35% is buying its way into the meetings-and-events spend that managed travel never tamed. Navan said Wednesday it has acquired BoomPop, an AI-powered platform for planning corporate meetings and events. The acquisition is the latest move in Navan’s consolidation strategy, bringing meetings and events spending into the same platform where companies already book travel and manage expenses. Navan declined to disclose the acquisition price. The business travel platform partnered with BoomPop earlier this year, and the acquisition repeats an apparent Navan pattern: The company ran the same playbook with Smartrips in Brazi