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The objective of this research is to identify the supply of geothermal resources in the thermal hotel enterprises, the areas of use, advantages and disadvantages, the environmental principles applied to the use of geothermal resources and the problems encountered in this area and to address them as a whole with recommendations. The universe of research is formed by senior and middle-level managers of seven thermal hotel companies with a tourism business certificate operating in Denizli. No examples were taken in the study. In the collection of data, qualitative research methods have been used by the interview technique. In this context, the managers were addressed 24 semi-configured interview questions, consisting of three sections on demographic characteristics and facility characteristics and research. The method of content analysis is used to analyze obtained data. The research has found that thermal hotel enterprises provide geothermal resource waters, mostly from municipalities, and some from their own thermal waters; there is no central distribution network for the transportation of thermal waters to the hotels; each facility must establish its own transportation system for the supply of thermal water from municipal waters. In the Denizli region, the conclusion was made that there was no re-injection substructure and there was no work on the recycling of thermal water in any hotel due to health problems. In the framework of the study, the use of geothermal water as a source of energy has found that energy costs have decreased; LNG, natural gas or fossil fuels have been reduced and environmental pollution has been prevented and the income of thermal hotels has increased indirectly.