Metrostar.com welcomes new hotels, inns, suites and resorts into the system each week. In addition there are hotel name and brand changes to be monitored, hotels expanding facilities, hotels re-positioning and even hotel closures. Metrostar.com works hard to maintain the best hotel inventory including all the new hotels opening in all parts of the World.

Here we highlight news on hotels that have been recently completed or are under construction so you can continue to be updated on what we have in store for you. Australia is one place where there have been a huge number of new hotels developed in all of the key cities. Sydney, where the Olympic Games were held now hosts some thousands of new rooms and suites, almost all of which now feature on Metrostar.com. One of the classiest additions is the Westin Sydney, which forms part of the fully restored General Post Office in Martin Place. In Mandurah in Western Australia, one hour's drive south of Perth is the new Metro Suites Meadow Springs Resort. Other new hotels include Hotel Ibis Ellerslie and the Novotel Ellerslie in New Zealand, the Hotel Ibis at Sydney Airport, Australia and the Armada Hotel East Timor. Tryp Cayo Santa Maria, Cuba has added 900 additional rooms. Then there is the Breezes Costa Verde, Cuba, Tryp Varadero, Cuba and the Breezes Negril, Jamaica. Quality Suites, Brazil, Melia Comfort, South Tower, Brazil and Comfort Suites, Brazil are all recent openings. Paradisus Tenerife, Spain is another. Starhotel Monginevro, Italy is adding 55 rooms to be completed by 2002.

Hilton Hotels have opened 19 Hampton Inn® and Hampton Inn & Suites® hotels this year, representing an additional 1,844 guest rooms. This brought the brand's total numbers on Metrostar.com to 1,090 hotels and 112,796 rooms systemwide.