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'''Crystal Hoteliers International''' is a corporation that builds, owns, and operates hotels around the world under various names that is wholly owned by the [[Akronism|Church of Akrona]]. It is a for-profit corporation, and the Church pays taxes on all income generated by the business. It is based in Crystal Coast, [[
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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 guest, and then only to direct the guest to the website or the nearest Akronist temple. EKV has agreed to alter even these policies in countries that have asked them to.
Since a Tavari Supreme Constitutional Court ruling in 1937, the Church no longer allows those employed at Akronist temples (including, according to the technicality of the law, members of formally incorporated cloistered orders like the Seekers of the Assumption) to work as employees in its for-profit corporation. The court case ruled that the Church could not claim not-for-profit status on its religious operations if its employees were also working in corporate operations. The Church of Akrona's policy since then has been to act as hand-off in the day-to-day administration of the business as possible—the relationship was described in 2018 by Matron [[Vana Dandreal]] as "they send us checks"—and to consider there to be a wall between the company and the rest of the Church (the so-called "Crystal Curtain").
EKV hotels are among the most-visited hotels in the world, and regularly appear at or near the top of industry rankings in customer service and in overall guest satisfaction. The company prides itself on highly emphasizing customer service and providing “the most enjoyable experience,” which it says it does despite cutting into profits. EKV hotels have a reputation in particular for serving high quality food, and their policy is that it is always free and all-you-can-eat to guests. Famously—and sometimes controversially among members of the Church and the greater public—EKV hotels are permitted to serve non-aquatic animal products in meals, including red meat. As Akronism strictly forbids the slaughter of land animals and the eating of their meat, many Church members oppose meat being provided at Church-owned hotels. The Church has strict guidelines that require all meat products entering the hotel to have already been precooked, and has stated that it deliberately sets prices in a way as to always make a financial loss on the meat products it provides to guests. Employees of the hotels are permitted to decline to handle the meat products if they wish, regardless of their religious identification, and hotels will remove meat from the menu if there are no willing employees to handle or prepare it.
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