In Motels across the US that i've stayed at, there was always a Bible in a drawer by the Bed, How did this come to be?

Don’t know if this practice is still done, it was many years ago ,But
when i was a kid, everywhere we stayed there was a bible in the drawer next to the bed…,at “every” motel we stayed at.
Was it a Christian thing to own motels and do the Bible thing?
Or maybe a Christian union that had a contract with the motels?