Who we are in OCA Hotels

OCA Hotels is the hotel chain with the largest number of establishments in the Galician community. The company's headquarters are in Santiago de Compostela. Its portfolio currently consists of 39 establishments: Oca 14 units, DuermingBeds 24 units and Grand Oca, 1 unit.

The OCA brand is the company's reference brand, groups three and four-star urban resorts, which offer complementary services, in addition to offering gastronomy, spas, golf, etc. The Grand OCA brand remains as a brand for superior category establishments, five-star hotels, luxury products with a wide complementary offer. DuermingBeds is the functional brand of the group, it will bring together both hotel and non-hotel establishments, all of them characterized by an excellent price-quality ratio and reduced services.

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HISTORY

The Oca Hotels group was born in 1998 with the aspiration of becoming a leading organization in the sustainable and responsible management of tourist establishments in the northwest of the Iberic Peninsula. Although, its origins go back a few years before, because it is not possible to talk about this birth without talking about its founder and president, David Caramés Pombo. Specialist in management and direction of tourism companies, he is the president of the Inversiones Hosteleras de Galicia holding, manager of the OCA Hotels trademark.

Born in Sanxenxo, he began his activity in the hotel sector in his hometown in 1994, with two establishments: Apartamentos Caramés and Hotel Vermar. Since then and as long as its business volume and the number of the hotels grows, he set the objective of establishing a hotel chain specialized in the Galician destination in the first place and later expanding its radius of action to destinations such as Asturias, Castilla and León and Portugal.

David Caramés' entrepreneurial instinct led him to diversify the business, hence the emergence of OCA Hotels. The beginning of the hotel group was based on taking advantage of opportunities that were emerging, initially in Spain, however, based on a significant effort, the company grew to reach a portfolio of 14 hotels. Its international expansion comes in 2007.

For the Galician company, people are key. Its president, aware that the needs of clients vary over time, assumes a permanent process of innovation as essential, which allows OCA Hotels to maintain competitiveness over time. For this reason, in 2007 his search for business outside the borders of the Iberian Peninsula led him to Brazil, where he began the process of buying, building and operating the group's most important unit: five star Grand OCA Maragogi Beach & Leisure Resort, in the state of Alagoas. A five-star hotel ideal for families, located in front of an impressive line of coral reefs in the Maragogi area, Brazil. A complex made up of 700 beds and whose expansion project, in full development, will take it to more than 830 rooms.

The company has a total of 4,800 beds. In Spain, it is in the communities of Galicia, present in the four provinces, and in Asturias with hotels in Oviedo, Gijón and Avilés. Internationally, the line is present in Portugal, with six establishments located in Porto city, and Brazil, through a tourist complex.

MISSION

OCA Hotels tries to bring tangible benefits to its community, offering quality, innovative and efficient hotel services based on the development of our human capital, excellence in management and always seeking the full satisfaction of our customers.

VIEW

OCA Hotels aspires to make its company a leading organization in the sustainable and responsible management of tourist establishments in the north-east of the Iberic Peninsula.

The persons are key in our vision and those who work in our hotels strive every day to ensure that each and every one of our clients receives the best service at all times, making every stay a challenge to overcome.

The needs of our clients vary day by day, so we assume as essential the ongoing process of innovation, which allows us to maintain our competitiveness as a business group.

VALUES

OCA Hotels staff want to proclaim their commitment to this project, that will lead to success the company, working from humility and simplicity, closeness to the customer, the employee, the shareholder and the entire society that surrounds us.

Likewise, we assume as our own value the deep care and respect for the environment, contributing in this way to the sustainable development of our community.

As an organization, we will be efficient without losing our capacity to respond and we will have humanity always present in our line of management.

ETHICS

OCA Hotels, in accordance with Resolution 58/4 of the General Assembly, on October 31st, 2003 United Nations Convention against Corruption, decides to assume as its own and to comply with the recommendations of the aforementioned document linked to the Private Sector, included in its article 12, whose requirements, adapted to the ethical management of our company, are listed below.

OCA Hotels, as a private company, will be governed in accordance with the fundamental principles of good governance and ethical management, adopting measures to prevent corruption and improve its accounting and auditing processes and standards.

The measures adopted to achieve these ends may consist of:

• Promoting cooperation between our company and the agencies in charge of enforcing the law.
• Promoting the formulation of standards and procedures aimed at safeguarding our integrity as an independent private entity, including codes of conduct for the correct, honorable and proper exercise of commercial activities and all relevant professions and for the prevention of conflicts of interest, as well as for the promotion of the use of good commercial practices between our company and those directly or indirectly dependent on the different public administrations.
• Promoting transparency in our management, including, when appropriate, measures related to the identity of the legal and natural persons involved in the establishment and management of companies.
• Preventing the misuse of administrative procedures that regulate private entities, including procedures related to the granting of subsidies and licenses by public authorities for commercial activities.
• Ensuring that OCA Hotels, in accordance with its structure and size, have sufficient internal accounting controls to help prevent and detect acts associated with corruption and that the accounts and financial statements of our company are subject to appropriate procedures and rigorous audit and certification.

In order to prevent corruption, OCA Hotels will adopt the necessary measures, in accordance with its internal functioning and regulations related to the maintenance of books and records, the disclosure of financial statements and accounting and auditing standards, to prohibit following acts committed for the purpose of committing any of the offenses established in accordance with this Convention:

• The establishment of accounts not recorded in books.
• The performance of operations not recorded in books or poorly recorded.
• The record of nonexistent expenses.
• The expense entry in the accounting books with incorrect indication of its purpose.
• The use of false documents.
• The deliberate destruction of accounting documents before the deadline established by law.

MANAGEMENT TEAM

David Caramés, president of OCA Hotels. He has more than 22 years of experience in business management. He was a director of the Caja de Ahorros de Pontevedra (1996-99). At the same time, he served as president of the Association of Tourist Entrepreneurs of Sanxenxo during the period 1996-2003. In 2003 he joined the tourism sector council of the Fundación Comarcal del Salnés as CEO until 2006. Postgraduate Specialist in Management and Management of Tourism Companies at the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences from the University of Santiago de Compostela.

Brazil director

Marketing director: Patricia Leiro.

Financial director: José Manuel Rodríguez.

Product manager, ecommerce & DuermingBeds: Antonio Ares.

Legal & compliance department: Cristina Pedrosa.

Commercial director Spain and Portugal: Goretti Iglesias.

Director of OCA Puerta del Camino: Lalo Crespo.

Director of OCA Villa de Avilés: Aida Iglesias González.

Director of OCA Palacio de la Llorea: Bernardo Blanco.

Diretor OCA Grande Hotel do Pezo: Maike Pazos.

Director of Porto hotels: Jon González.