From the official data
Tourism: Pre-Earthquake Baseline and the Development Agency's 2025 Records
According to the Hatay Provincial Tourism Strategy and Action Plan of the Eastern Mediterranean Development Agency (DOĞAKA), Hatay had 45 tourism-licensed accommodation facilities, 2,273 rooms and 4,602 beds in 2016 data. These figures describe the situation before the 2023 earthquake; current facility and bed numbers are not in these sources. The agency's 2025 activity report records current tourism projects (Antakya Gastronomy Market, Madenli Yacht Harbour, Hatay Surf Centre).
| Indicator | Value | Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tourism-licensed accommodation facilities | 45 | 2016 | [1] |
| Rooms · beds | 2,273 · 4,602 | 2016 | [1] |
| Rooms · beds in Antakya (subtotal) | 754 · 1,522 | 2016 | [1] |
| Tourism-licensed food-and-beverage facilities · travel agencies | 10 · 86 | 2016 | [1] |
| Average annual tourists (entries to licensed facilities) | 223,304 | 2009–2015 | [1] |
| Average nights · average occupancy (DOĞAKA calculation) | 1.9 · 34.4% | 2009–2015 | [1] |
| Antakya Gastronomy Market: opened · daily visitors · businesses | 27.09.2024 · about 3,000 · 15 | 2024–2025 | [2] |
| Hatay Surf Centre (2025 CMDP): completion target | April 2026 | 2025 | [2] |
What does this data mean for an investor?
About 33% of the pre-earthquake capacity (1,522 beds) was in Antakya's centre. The present state of this capacity cannot be read from these sources; without the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's current licensed-facility data no accommodation supply figure can be given. By DOĞAKA's calculation, average occupancy in licensed facilities during 2009–2015 was 34.4% with 1.9 nights on average: pre-earthquake demand used only a small part of existing bed capacity. The agency read this as roughly two thirds of accommodation capacity going unused.
What it means for an investor: for a new hotel or boutique-lodging decision, the first question should not be “are beds missing?” but “where will occupied beds come from?”; low pre-earthquake occupancy shows the demand side (visitor numbers, length of stay) matters more than the structure. As current demand indicators, Hatay Airport passenger data (the air-traffic block on this page), new visitor-drawing sites such as the Gastronomy Market and the museum's reopening timetable should be followed together (interpretation).
Limitation: Accommodation and visitor figures refer to 2016 and 2009–2015; they rest on Hatay Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism data in the DOĞAKA plan and do not reflect the 2023 earthquake. The plan's “occupancy” is a rough ratio of annual tourist numbers to bed capacity, not true room occupancy. The plan's visitor and revenue projections for 2023 should be assumed not to have materialised and are not used as reference. The 2025 items are project statuses from the development agency's activity report; visitor numbers (Gastronomy Market) are the agency's statement.