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==History==

The company was established in 1899. In the build up to [[The Worldwide Exposition of 1895]] in Crystal Coast (then ''Enaro Šdatražakai''), more than two dozen new hotels were built in and around the city in anticipation of visitors. While the Expo was a success and Tavaris did begin to see increased tourism in the years afterward, after the end of the Expo ended there was very quickly a glut of hotels and a dearth of guests to fill them. Initally, the Church of Akrona's interest in the hotels was not as a business, but simply as extra space for their charitable efforts to provide food and housing to people in need of it. The Church had long provided food and housing in their own Temples—it is considered a religious mandate to "feed the hungry and shelter the exposed"—and was generally quite experienced in the logistics of hospitality, but it had run out of room. In 1897, one of the hotels decided to close, citing low demand, and the Church bought the building to use for public aid. However, when other hotels reached out to the Church about a similar offer, Church officials had no need for additional space for the province's charitable operations and initially declined. Only after a visit by the owners of the hotels to the Matron herself did the Church agree to buy the hotels, reserving one for "future need" and deciding to attempt to keep the other—the Hotel Heartwood on the high street in Crystal Coast—open as a commercial venture to raise funds for the local parishes.

 

 

==Business Operations==

Because the Church operates the hotels as a business (and states publicly that it uses the revenue to fund Church operations), it does not generally use the hotels for the purposes of evangelism. Every EKV hotel room has two holy books: ''The First Edicts'' and ''The Akronist Declaration of Faith (1979)'', the latter being a relatively small book of 12 pages that is designed to be a brief summation of the central tenets of the faith. The books are always located inside drawers and never out in the open. Additionally, every mirror in every EKV hotel has a sticker that says “You Are A Gift!” and shows the Church’s website: akrona.org. These are the only evangelist materials the Church permits in the hotels, and all staff are instructed never to speak about religion unless asked first by a patron, and then only to direct the patron to the website or the nearest Temple. EKV has agreed to alter even these policies in countries that have asked them to.