Marriott is an exception.

Visitors are less likely to find religious books in luxury or city-based properties.

Who Puts Bibles in Hotel Rooms?

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They would then offer to furnish every room of the hotel with a copy.

Today, the organization claims to have distributed more than two billion Bibles worldwide.

By the 1920s, the name Gideons had become synonymous with the free Bible distribution.

Some hotels began stocking the texts of multiple religions, though the Bible is the most common.