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Overview

Sevil Sönmez is affiliated with the University of Central Florida in the United States. Their research spans several key areas within health, psychology, sociology, and economics, with a focus on occupational and public health concerns related to the hospitality and transportation sectors.

Their recent publications include studies addressing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on workers' health and safety. Notable papers include:

  • The Hospitality Industry in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Current Topics and Research Methods (2020) published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Understanding the effects of COVID-19 on the health and safety of immigrant hospitality workers in the United States (2020) published in Tourism Management Perspectives

Co-authorship collaborations have frequently involved researchers such as Yorghos Apostolopoulos, Michael K. Lemke, Adam Hege, Yu-Chin Hsieh, and Robert V. Randolph. These partnerships reflect interdisciplinary efforts within occupational health and safety as well as related social and behavioral sciences.

The scholar has contributed to several journals multiple times, including:

  • American Journal of Industrial Medicine
  • Workplace Health & Safety
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Tourism Management Perspectives

Main fields and subfields of study covered by Sönmez include experimental and cognitive psychology, health professions, toxicology, sociology, political science, economics, and econometrics. Their work integrates insights from these disciplines to examine workplace issues comprehensively.

Major research topics addressed are:

  • Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Occupational Health and Safety Research
  • Family Business Performance and Succession
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Traffic and Road Safety

Best Publications

  • Influence of terrorism risk on foreign tourism decisions.

    Sevil F. Sönmez;Alan R. Graefe

  • Determining Future Travel Behavior from Past Travel Experience and Perceptions of Risk and Safety

    Sevil F. Sönmez;Alan R. Graefe

  • TOURISM, TERRORISM, AND POLITICAL INSTABILITY

    Sevil F. Sönmez

  • Residents' attitudes toward tourism development

    Victor Teye;Ercan Sirakaya;Sevil F. Sönmez

  • Tourism in Crisis: Managing the Effects of Terrorism

    Sevil F. Sönmez;Yiorgos Apostolopoulos;Peter Tarlow

  • A Distorted Destination Image? The Case of Turkey:

    Sevil Sönmez;Ercan Sirakaya

  • Understanding Residents’ Support for Tourism Development in the Central Region of Ghana

    Ercan Sirakaya;Victor Teye;Sevil Sönmez

  • Redefining Ecotourism: The Need for a Supply-Side View

    Ercan Sirakaya;Vinod Sasidharan;Sevil Sönmez

  • Wine tourism: motivating visitors through core and supplementary services.

    Erick T. Byrd;Bonnie Canziani;Yu-Chin (Jerrie) Hsieh;Keith Debbage

  • HIV-risk behaviours of American spring break vacationers: a case of situational disinhibition?

    Y Apostolopoulos;S Sönmez;C H Yu

  • Gender Images in State Tourism Brochures: An Overlooked Area in Socially Responsible Tourism Marketing

    Ercan Sirakaya;Sevil Sonmez

  • The Hospitality Industry in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Current Topics and Research Methods

    Mohammad Reza Davahli;Waldemar Karwowski;Sevil Sonmez;Yorghos Apostolopoulos

  • Health survey of U.S. long-haul truck drivers: work environment, physical health, and healthcare access.

    Yorghos Apostolopoulos;Sevil Sönmez;Mona M. Shattell;Clifford Gonzales

  • Worksite-Induced Morbidities Among Truck Drivers in the United States

    Yorghos Apostolopoulos;Sevil Sönmez;Mona M. Shattell;Michael Belzer

  • The Impact of Gender and Religion on College Students’ Spring Break Behavior

    Anna S. Mattila;Yorghos Apostolopoulos;Sevil Sonmez;Lucy Yu

  • Exploring the touristic image of Jordan.

    Ingrid Schneider;Sevil Sönmez

  • How 'social' are destinations? Examining European DMO social media usage

    Ahmet Uşaklı;Burcu Koç;Sevil Sönmez

  • Do destination images really matter? Predicting destination choices of student travellers:

    Ercan Sirakaya;Sevil F. Sonmez;Hwan-Suk Choi

  • Binge drinking and casual sex on spring break

    Sevil Sönmez;Yorghos Apostolopoulos;Chong Ho Yu;Shiyi Yang

  • Understanding the effects of COVID-19 on the health and safety of immigrant hospitality workers in the United States

    Sevil Sönmez;Yorghos Apostolopoulos;Michael Kenneth Lemke;Michael Kenneth Lemke;Yu-Chin Jerrie Hsieh

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan R. Graefe
Alan R. Graefe Pennsylvania State University
Asli D.A. Tasci
Asli D.A. Tasci University of Central Florida
Dallen J. Timothy
Dallen J. Timothy Arizona State University
Richard Butler
Richard Butler University of Strathclyde

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