# HEDNA

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/hedna/  
**Website:** https://www.hedna.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

HEDNA (Hotel Electronic Distribution Network Association) is a not-for-profit trade association founded in 1991 and headquartered in Forest Hill, Maryland, United States, that convenes the hotel distribution industry — hotel chains, GDS operators, OTAs, switches, channel managers, payment providers and connectivity vendors — around shared best practice for hospitality electronic distribution. It sits alongside rather than inside the distribution chain: it moves no inventory and processes no bookings, but its Disciplines (Connectivity, Content Distribution, Payments, Data & Analytics, Revenue Optimization) produce recommendation documents, and it co-authored the Open Payments Alliance Standards Specification with HTNG and OpenTravel. HEDNA publishes no developer portal, no API, and no machine-readable specification on hedna.org; every probe of developer./developers./docs./api. subdomains and of /developers, /api, /docs, /openapi.json, /swagger.json, /api-docs and /.well-known/ failed (DNS failure or HTTP 404). Its publications library, research reports and HEDNA U courseware are gated behind paid membership at members.hedna.org (HTTP 403 Cloudflare challenge unauthenticated) and pathlms.com/hedna. Honest posture: member-gated documents, no public API, no exit path published.

## Kin Score — 13.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 13.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Security (1)

- **Hedna Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Tags

Travel, United States, Hospitality, Hotels, Distribution, Booking, GDS, Standards, Trade Association

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/hedna/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.