{"id":22574,"date":"2020-04-08T12:04:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T12:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/uncategorized\/hcd-hotel-content-database\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T15:40:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T15:40:58","slug":"hcd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hcd","title":{"rendered":"HCD &#8211; Hotel Content Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of HCD in the <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hospitality-industry\">hospitality industry<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>HCD stands for: Hotel Content Database.\u00a0HCD, formerly (<a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/odd-online-distribution-database\">ODD \u2013 Online Distribution Database<\/a>), is a content database service offered by <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/pegasus\">Pegasus<\/a> Solutions. It includes text, images, <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/geocoding\">geocoding<\/a>, contact information etc. from the hotels in multiple languages.<\/p>\n<p>With his HCD Pegasus manages the largest repository of <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hotel\">hotel<\/a> descriptive content in the world.<\/p>\n<p>It is most commonly used together with the <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/pegasus-switch\">Pegasus Switch<\/a>, which delivers rates and <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/availability\">availability<\/a> for hotel rooms. The HCD is typically used to transmit content in a customized way to <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/ota\">OTA<\/a> websites eliminating the need for the hotel to maintain content manually in the <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/extranet\">Extranet<\/a>. Hybrid-models are common as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hod\">HOD<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/gds-global-distribution-system\">GDS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Synonyms<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HCD<\/li>\n<li>Hotel Content Database<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of HCD in the  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h","category-glossary"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>HCD - Hotel Content Database Definition \/ Meaning<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Definition: HCD stands for: Hotel Content Database.\u00a0HCD, formerly (ODD - Online Distribution Database), is a content database service offered by Pegasus Solutions.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hcd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HCD - Hotel Content Database Definition \/ Meaning\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Definition: HCD stands for: Hotel Content Database.\u00a0HCD, formerly (ODD - Online Distribution Database), is a content database service offered by Pegasus Solutions.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hcd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Xotels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-08T12:04:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-03T15:40:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Patrick Landman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@xotels\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Patrick Landman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"BlogPosting\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/glossary\\\/hcd#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/glossary\\\/hcd\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Patrick Landman\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f51e882bd553ae1b905fc0214cdca6f5\"},\"headline\":\"HCD &#8211; 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