Mercure is the world's second largest midscale hotel chain with 771 hotels across 51 countries and over 90,000 rooms. The Mercure Budapest City Center has 227 rooms and 7 air-conditioned meeting rooms, including a unique board room, with basic equipment and services available upon request. Through expanding via franchises, Mercure aims to have 1,000 hotels worldwide within the next five years by opening a new hotel every week mainly through franchise agreements.