{{Short description|International hotel brand}} {{Infobox company | name = Mercure Hotels | logo = 150px | logo_alt = | image = | image_alt = | image_caption = | locations = 899 (2021)<ref name="accor key">{{cite web|url=https://group.accor.com/en/investors/financial-data/key-indicators|title=Key indicators|website=Accor.com|access-date=25 November 2019}}</ref> | type = Subsidiary | industry = Hospitality | founder = | founded = {{Start date and age|1973}} | area_served = 61 countries (2021) | hq_location_city = Issy les Moulineaux | hq_location_country = France | parent = Accor | homepage = {{official URL}} }}
'''Mercure''' is a French midscale hotel chain owned by Accor.<ref name="hospitalitynet 23000072">{{cite web|url=https://www.hospitalitynet.org/brand/23000072/mercure.html|title=Mercure by Accor|website=Hospitalitynet.org|access-date=22 December 2019}}</ref> Created in 1973 in France, the brand was acquired by Accor in 1975, and subsequently became a major part of the company's midscale hotel portfolio, alongside Novotel. As of 2021, Mercure operated 949 hotels in 63 countries.<ref name="accor key"/> Outside Europe, Accor additionally uses the '''Grand Mercure''' brand, an upscale subsidiary in currently 12 countries.
== History == thumb|The former logo of Mercure Hotels which is still found on many properties. === Foundation and early years === The first Mercure hotel was established in 1973 in Saint-Witz, France. In 1975, Mercure was acquired by Accor (then Novotel-SIEH) and became Novotel's complementary midscale brand within the group.<ref name="berghahn 9781845453237">{{cite book|title=Europe at the Seaside: The Economic History of Mass Tourism in the Mediterranean|publisher=Berghahn Books|date=2009|author1=Luciano Segreto|author2=Carles Manera|author3=Manfred Pohl|isbn=9781845453237}}</ref>
In 1989, Mercure opened its 100th hotel.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lhotellerie-restauration.fr/lhotellerie/articles/2580_24_septembre_1998_lhotellerie_economie/laccueildesanimaux.html|title=L'accueil des animaux|website=Lhotellerie-restauration.fr|date=24 September 1998|language=fr|access-date=22 December 2019}}</ref> In 1991, following Accor's acquisition of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, the ''Altea'' hotels acquired through this deal became Mercure hotels.<ref name="berghahn 9781845453237"/> Several hotel brands purchased by Accor throughout the 1990s (Parthénon, Libertel, Jardins de Paris, Frantour, All Seasons) were also rebranded into Mercure hotels.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lhotellerie-restauration.fr/lhotellerie/articles/2714_19_avril_2001/70-nouveaux.html|title=70 nouveaux|website=Lhotellerie-restauraiton.fr|date=19 April 2001|language=fr|access-date=22 December 2019}}</ref>
===Development since 2000=== By 2001, 655 Mercure hotels were in operation worldwide.<ref name="berghahn 9781845453237"/> In 2007, following the launch of Accor's new brands MGallery, Pullman Hotels and Resorts and All Seasons, the group allocated several of its Mercure-branded locations to the development of those new brands.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lhotellerie-restauration.fr/hotellerie-restauration/articles/2007/3045_06_septembre_2007/entretien_avec_gilles_pelisson_directeur_general_et_administrateur_d_accor.htm|title=Entretien avec Gilles Pélisson|website=Lhotellerie-restauration.fr|date=6 September 2007|language=fr|access-date=22 December 2019}}</ref>
In 2010, Mercure launched an expansive refurbishment program for its hotel rooms.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/4056726.html|title=Mercure injects new life into its network of 725 hotels and accelerates its global expansion|website=Hospitalitynet.org|date=29 June 2012|access-date=22 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://hospitality-on.com/en/accor-reveals-new-mercure-guestroom-design|title=Accor reveals new Mercure guestroom design|website=Hospitality-on.com|date=9 July 2012|access-date=22 December 2019}}</ref> In 2011, Accor signed a deal with Jupiter Hotels in the United Kingdom to rebrand 24 of their properties into Mercure hotels.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hospitality-on.com/en/hotel-development/24-hotels-join-mercure-network-uk|title=24 hotels join Mercure network in the UK|website=Hospitality-on.com|date=3 October 2011|access-date=22 December 2019}}</ref> In 2012, Mercure opened in China the first Grand Mercure branded Mei Jue for the Chinese market.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/4055103.html|title=Accor tailors Mercure for China, Hospitality Net, 1 March 2012|access-date=22 December 2019}}</ref> In 2015, Mercure launched in Colombia<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hospitality-on.com/en/accorhotels-opens-third-brand-colombia|title=AccorHotels opens a third brand in Colombia|website=Hospitality-on.com|date=31 August 2015|access-date=22 December 2019}}</ref> and opened three Grand Mercure hotels in Brazil.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/4068931.html|title=Three new Accor hotels in Recife, Brazil|website=Hospitalitynet.org|date=4 February 2015|access-date=22 December 2019}}</ref>
== Business figures == [[File:Hotel Mercure Warszawa Centrum 2021.jpg|thumb|Mercure in Warsaw]] [[File:20220729_xl_140548332_Potsdam,_Mercure_Hotel_Potsdam_City_vom_Lustgarten.jpg|thumb|Mercure in Potsdam]] {| class="wikitable" |+ Development since 2011<ref name="accor key"/> |- ! Year !! Hotels !! Rooms |- | 2023 || 949|| 126,074 |- | 2022 || 904|| 119,591 |- | 2021 || 899|| 119,007 |- | 2020 || 875 || 114,926 |- | 2019 || 842 || 110,228 |- | 2018 || 810 || 104,969 |- | 2017 || 779 || 100,160 |- | 2016 || 747 || 95,894 |- | 2015 || 741 || 93,897 |- | 2014 || 711 || 89,203 |- | 2013 || 758 || 95,571 |- | 2012 || 804 || 99,853 |- | 2011 || 773 || 94,813 |}
==See also== * Accor * Novotel
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category inline}} *{{official website}}
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