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The Study aimed at having a general recognition of the value of tourism by the local community in Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) and their views towards a relocation process of the tourism product based on a sought sporting events portfolio. This paper studied the local society of Aqaba, situated on the South of Jordan, and the possibility to relocate its tourism strategy by concentrating on a portfolio of specially selected sports occasions. With roughly 160,000 people, Aqaba’s economy depends on the port of Aqaba and the options that tourism brings. The tourism industry is very seasonal with the maximum visitation season being summer which promotes beach tourism in all its shapes and forms. Such opportunities need to be vigorously explored so as to derive maximum benefit and bolster the local fiscus. Sport tourism events have clearly been found to give exciting opportunities to market cities and areas as favorite tourist destinations, and to offer growth prospects for their corresponding local economies. There is much work that needs to be undertaken in order to meet the gap in the literature on Aqaba as a sustainable sport tourism destination, and this article iss only one small step in that direction.