High-end hotels have been racing to boost their amenities, offering flat-panel TVs, wireless Internet, expanded room service menus, and even intimacy kits that include condoms.<\/p>\n
But one mainstay of the hotel room appears to be fading in these trendy places: the bedside Bible. Since 2001, the number of luxury hotels to include Bibles and other religious materials has dropped by 18 percent, according to the American Hotel and Lodging Association. <\/p>\n
That doesn’t mean Bibles are disappearing entirely; the number of hotels, motels and inns with in-room Bibles has increased from 79 percent in 1988 to 95 percent today. <\/p>\n
But now, nearly a century after the first Bibles started to appear in rooms, luxury hotels and resorts seem to be bucking that trend. <\/p>\n
Kimpton Hotels used to provide copies of the New Testament and sometimes a book of Buddhist inspirational phrases. <\/p>\n
But a year and a half ago, the chain removed the books from rooms in its 42 hotels, according to Mike DeFrino, senior vice president of hotel operations. <\/p>\n
The move was part of a larger push to be more environmentally friendly, DeFrino said, and also included stripping phone books from individual rooms. <\/p>\n
Instead, Kimpton now offers copies of the New Testament, Old Testament, Book of Mormon, the Quran and Buddhist and Hindu texts at the front desk. <\/p>\n
How many times do they get a request from guests for such books? <\/p>\n
“Rarely,” DeFrino said. <\/p>\n
“People don’t ask for this stuff. It’s not something they’re interested in,” he said. “They don’t ask for phone books, and they don’t ask for religious books generally.” <\/p>\n
But it’s not because guests are shy. <\/p>\n
Some of Kimpton’s hotels, particularly its Monaco brand, offer guests the chance to have goldfish in their room through their stay. DeFrino said roughly 15 percent of guests request a goldfish. <\/p>\n
Kimpton isn’t the only chain with a lack of bedside Bibles. <\/p>\n
The Hotel Gansevoort in New York and the soon-to-open Gansevoort South in Miami Beach don’t and have never had Bibles in the rooms. Instead, the hotel has opted for a library of assorted religious texts and books available upon request. <\/p>\n
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