The 186-room Hilton Accra Airport City will be the company?s first to open in Ghana. Hilton Hotels Corporation has announced its first property in Ghana will be the 186-room Hilton Accra Airport City, scheduled to open in early 2010.

The property - Hilton's ninth in Africa - is owned by Grand Real Estates and Company Limited.

Grand Real Estates chairman Ramzi Dakmak said the signing was an indication of the country's economic expansion.