Seyma Bayazit is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Motor Vehicles and Transportation Technologies, Bodrum Maritime Vocational School at the Mugla SK University, Bodrum, Mugla, Turkiye. She received her Ph.D. in Maritime Transportation Engineering from Istanbul Technical University. Her research interests cover maritime transportation, cruise port destinations, coastal and maritime tourism, sustainability, and geographic information system application to the maritime field. She is an individual member of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) and has published in many refereed journals.