He said with the rate at which the sector was growing due to the massive investment by the government, that growth was expected with the creation of more than 100,000 jobs every year.

The Minister said this at the commissioning of the redeveloped and modernised Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, on Tuesday, in Accra.

Dr Awal said Ghana had been endowed with heritage and political tourism and that it was important to leverage those to make the country the number one in tourism on the continent.

The big countries in Africa in terms of tourism have so many tourist attractions but Ghana has heritage and political tourism and that is what we want to leverage to make Ghana the preferred heritage site on the continent."

Dr Awal said very soon the Du Bois Centre, George Padmour LibraryNational Museum and the Osu castle would all be modernised and linked to the forts and castle to make Ghana the heritage attraction site in Africa.

The Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park is a monument of historic significance in Ghana. It is dedicated to the memory of the country's first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. It also serves as the resting place for the remains of the first President and his wife, Fathia Nkrumah.

The Park is located at the coast of Accra, on the former British colonial Polo Grounds, where Dr. Kwame Nkrumah declared Ghana as an independent nation.