Aqaba city, Jordan and Aqaba Port is well known for its beach resorts and luxury hotels, which service those who come for fun in the sand as well as watersports like windsurfing and Scuba diving. Aqaba port also offers activities which take advantage of its desert location as Wadi Rum. Another very popular venue is the Turkish Bath built in 306AD, in which locals and visitors alike come to relax after a hot day.

In 2006, the Tourism Division of the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority reported that the number of tourists visiting the Zone in 2006 rose to about 432,000, an increase of 5% over previous year. Approximately 65%, or 293,000 were Jordanians. Of foreign tourists, Europeans visited Aqaba Zone in the largest numbers, with about 98,000 visiting during the year. The division has financed tourism advertising and media campaigns with the assistance of the European Union. Shore excursions and trips to Petra and Wadi Rum from Aqaba port was also increased in the last 2 years as a result of the increase of the number of ships docking at Aqaba Port, Jordan.

Aqaba has been chosen for the site of a new waterfront building project that would rebuild Aqaba with new man-made water structures, new high-rise residential and office buildings, and more tourist services to place Aqaba on the investment map and challenge other centers of waterfront development throughout the region - Aqaba port.