"Hotels in Antalya welcomed their first guests from the disaster zone by Wednesday morning," said Ulkay Atmaca, head of industry body Professional Hotel Managers Association.
Turkish foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Thursday that government was doing all it could to provide temporary accommodation to earthquake survivors who wanted to be re-housed.
"In all over Türkiye, 15,729 people have been accommodated in state guesthouses, student dormitories and hotels," Çavuşoğlu told a news conference in Ankara. "In Antalya alone, 11,165 earthquake survivors are accommodated in hotels."
But with thousands of people still buried under piles of rubble, many survivors appeared unwilling to leave the region despite the freezing weather.
"We have allocated rooms in our hotels but we see that many survivors do not want to come now, because they are still waiting for their family or friends to be rescued from rubble," said Hakan Saatçioğlu, Coordinator of Limak International Hotels&Resorts, which operates four hotels in Antalya.
Another problem in the earthquake area is sanitation.
In Antakya, in the central district of Hatay, it is almost impossible to reach a public toilet. In a tent camp near Hatay Stadium outside the city centre and even in a field hospital near partly-damaged Hatay Research Hospital, there were no public or mobile toilets available as of Wednesday night.
When people asked officials about toilets, they replied that the Emergency Coordination Center had been informed and the facilities would arrive "soon."
