Jorge, João Paulo da Conceição SilvaGaraybayli, Aghasadikh2025-04-042025-04-042024-12-12http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/12752As of 2022, the tourism industry has seen several emerging trends and directs that are shaping the way people travel. Rapid development of low-cost tourism can trace its beginnings to the very earliest days of the package tour. In the past twenty years, the de-regulation of European airspace and the emergence of the internet has created has permitted the development of this format. Likewise, the recent financial crisis and ever-increasing competition between destinations have also been driver and simultaneously low-cost accommodation businesses that began to supply and increased demand. However, not all regions of the World are developing contemporaneously. Even though most European cities already added a low-cost business model to their segmentation Some parts of the World however are facing several problems in this area. The reason could be already maximum inbound tourist numbers or no ability to apply this model to expand segmentation of incoming tourists. Also, it is known that not all fields within accommodation tourism can convert to satisfy low-cost tourism, one of which is mountain resorts. Mountain resorts are known to be one of the most expensive tourism choices which usually have narrow segment of average to high level income families. On the other hand, sustainable tourism, another tourism trend nowadays is also developing on uneven scale throughout the World. While some developed countries are implements laws and regulations towards development of sustainability in tourism sector, other countries have not even thought about it yet. Thus, the crossing point of these two lines presents an interesting topic for investigation in terms of the success of the mountain resorts, their success from the perspective of low-cost tourism and especially sustainable tourism.engSustainable tourismBusiness modelMountain resortLow-cost tourismmaster thesis203932315