Labor Inspector Ali İhsan Öztürk, presenting on behalf of the Labor Inspectors Association, provided information under the main heading of Labor Profile in Tourism regarding; the structure of the tourism sector, the labor profile in tourism on the scale of Antalya, the education status of workers, the determination of education levels and the reasons for the lack of high education levels, the age status of those working in the sector, the reasons for focusing on youth employment, seniority status, the fundamental disadvantages created by seasonal work, the status of additional income, marital status, comparisons by profession, the status of benefiting from staff housing and shuttle services, the status of union organization, and analyses of the inadequacy of organization. In the evaluation, he stated;
At the forefront of the sector's fundamental problems are the arrival of seasonal work and the need to take measures to remedy the negative impacts created by this type of employment; the fact that the sector's education level does not meet expectations and that raising the education level is inevitable; and the principle that there must be happy employees for satisfied guests, which is fundamentally based on wage policies and working conditions
emphasized the necessity of preventing unfair competition and providing economic incentives, as businesses face inevitable room rate increases to address these issues: improving conditions, abandoning long working hours, providing employees with career opportunities and establishing objective criteria to ensure this, taking employees' suggestions into account, providing opportunities to have a say in management, and applying the principle of equal treatment in its broadest sense.
İNKAY President Talat Kanbir, in his presentation titled "The Search for Qualified Personnel in Tourism," shared the research findings of TURAD regarding students studying in higher education from the perspective of those studying in the tourism sector, and drew attention to the importance of the happy employee.
ALTİD President Güner stated that a report had been submitted to the Ministry of Labour as TÜROFED, noting that they requested clarification on whether "work completion hours and time spent in service" are counted towards working hours, the issue of overtime, the "announcement of daily working and rest periods using appropriate means," and the implementation of pay slips via e-mail; he further pointed out that, moving from the fact that Labor Law No. 4857 cannot fully meet the needs of the working life in the tourism sector, there is a need for a legal regulation specific to tourism or, in a broader sense, the "Service Sector."