India, May 31 -- Turkish hotel operators were put on notice months ago, but ignored the warning. Turkish authorities waited until the beginning of the summer travel season to close more than 4000 hotels for operating without a license.

Visitors arriving in Turkey for a prepaid holiday may find that their booked hotel is closed upon arrival. Major booking platforms removed such hotels from their reservation systems just yesterday, but the damage is already done and ongoing

This comes even after the country's Constitutional Court annulled the legal grounds for this enforcement.

The intensified inspections were launched in response to the deadly hotel fire in Kartalkaya, which claimed 78 lives earlier this year.

The tragedy prompted pub...