Chino Hills residents are upset about the alleged businesses and started a group called Not in Chino Hills, which has posted the addresses of about a dozen other alleged material hotels in the San Gabriel Valley.
With its checkerboard motifs, subdued tones and starkly contrasting features — transparent and opaque, rough and smooth, expensive and inexpensive materials — the hotel was a critical and popular hit when it opened in 1984.
"The decline of religious materials in hotels, as cited in the survey, is reflective of increasing secularism and independence in the world," he said.
Marriott's decision mirrors others in the industry who are quietly phasing out the long-held tradition of stocking religious material in hotel rooms.
Jeff Pack, Gideons International's director of communications, said he isn't sure why the STR survey shows a decline in religious material in hotel rooms, considering that the distribution of Bibles by his group hasn't dropped.
Code signatories will be supported to raise awareness about commercial sexual exploitation of children in tourism immediately prior to and during the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, for example by placing awareness material in hotel rooms and public spaces and inserting information into in-house publications.
This will include clothing, shoes, toiletries, and paperwork and possibly also maps, guidebooks, reading material, and hotel or rental car information.
Still, industry experts say the changing demographics in America and the surge of international travelers in the U.S. are creating more reasons to keep religious materials out of hotel rooms.
Not a very practical material for a hotel terrace.
For starters, better environmental management can deliver immediate "material benefits" for hotel operators and destination managers.
