In Antalya, the licenses of some hotels have started to be suspended due to the lack of fire-resistant doors in the inspections of the fire brigade teams. Small hoteliers and boarding house owners in Antalya gathered in front of the governor's office and requested additional time due to supply and installation problems for door replacement.

According to Article 50 of the Fire Regulations, the licenses of some hotels have started to be suspended in the inspections for fire resistance of the entrance doors of hotel, motel, boarding house and guesthouse rooms, corridor doors and shaft doors. In the city with the most hotels in Turkey, inspections were first started from small hotels. Hoteliers, who also wanted 4-5 star hotels to be inspected, requested additional time for fire-resistant door replacement at the briefing meeting of the Antalya Metropolitan Municipality Fire Department teams. After the tense meeting, the hoteliers first gathered in front of the governor's office. After making a statement here, the small hoteliers then gathered in front of the Muratpaşa District Governorate.

LICENSES ARE BEING SUSPENDED

In the statement made on behalf of the Antalya Tourist Hoteliers and Boarding House Owners Association (AKTOB), it was stated that the Antalya Metropolitan Municipality Fire Department started inspections from simple accommodation facilities with the decision taken by the governorship and the provincial directorate of tourism in the city. The statement said, “Control teams check the businesses with the list they have received from the provincial directorate, and after determining the deficiencies, the relevant letter is sent to the governor's office, the district governor's office and finally to the district municipalities. As a result of this letter, the licenses of many hotels have been suspended. The application of the regulation, which has been going on for years, has been changed and additional measures have been requested in addition to the measures we have already taken. It is almost impossible to complete the additional measures, which we were not aware of beforehand, in a very short time after the control. A certain period of time for the completion of additional measures is not specified in the letters we received."

LARGE HOTELS WERE NOT INSPECTED

In the statement, which stated that the risk that may occur in small businesses is much lower than in star hotels, it was stated that “High-risk hotels have not been inspected yet and time has been gained. We have licenses obtained from official institutions and reports from the fire department of the facilities we operate. All the measures and applications requested from us during the report were taken, and the 'approval' report we received during the license was submitted to the district municipalities and the provincial directorate of tourism. Inspections were started from small businesses, and deficiencies were determined by the fire department with a report to the businesses. Some of the equipment specified as deficiencies are produced by certain companies in our country or supplied from abroad."

'GIVING 6 MONTHS IS OUR MOST IMPORTANT REQUEST'

In the statement, which emphasized that especially the replacement of room doors requires serious construction and renovation, it was stated that there are not enough technical personnel in Antalya to do this job. It was stated that even if the delivery dates given for fire-resistant door replacement and the supply of the door are completed within 2 months, no company can give a definite time for the installation phase. The hoteliers made the following request:

"Therefore, especially regarding room doors, considering the supply, installation times and the end date of the tourism season, if there is only a deficiency in the door, our most important request is to be given 6 months to remedy this defect as a simple defect."

'THERE IS A QUEUE AT 4 DOOR MANUFACTURING COMPANIES'

Speaking on behalf of the hoteliers in front of the governor's office, Yasin Salim stated that there are approximately one thousand hotels and boarding houses in the city center and said, “Currently, municipalities have started to close our hotels. The reason is; everyone has done everything, there is only one thing we could not fulfill. Just a door resistant to fire for 30 minutes in each room. There are at least 40-50 doors in each hotel, and in some it goes up to 200. The price of a normal door is 5.5-6 thousand liras. The price of these doors starts from 18 thousand 500 liras and goes up to 28 thousand. In addition, everyone inflated the prices. The reason is that there are 4 companies in Turkey that do this job. We placed orders with these companies, the minimum delivery starts from 1 month. Since a queue has formed, the doors of so many hotels will not be changed at the same time, so 2-3 months are given," he said.

24 HOURS WERE GIVEN

Salim stated that the letters of closure of the hotels as a result of the municipal inspection have reached everyone as of today, and said, “They give 24 hours and will be closed tomorrow. Now it means the closure of a thousand hotels. If at least 5 people work, 5 thousand employees. We have rent, electricity, water, other expenses and we will have to lay off our workers. If we buy 50 doors for 15 thousand TL today, it will cost 750 thousand TL. We cashed gold, borrowed money, and queued for the door. They are closing our hotels, but we ask the authorities to give us time. Let them close immediately if there is a problem related to the fire alarm and other systems on the other side, only the door. We ask you to give us time to change the fire-resistant doors," he said.

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