About Vila Galé

The Vila Galé group is one of the largest Portuguese hotel groups and ranks in the top 198 hotel companies in the world. It is comprised of various companies, of which the largest and most important is VILA GALÉ - Sociedade de Empreendimentos Turísticos, S.A. (Association of Tourism Enterprises), which is part of the Portuguese companies’ Rating 1.

This company, founded in 1986, focuses on exploring and managing all the hotel units of the group, as well as the execution of projects and building new tourism ventures.

The Vila Galé group is currently in charge of the management of 33 hotel units: 24 in Portugal (Algarve, Beja, Évora, Oeiras, Cascais, Sintra, Ericeira, Estoril, Lisbon, Coimbra, Porto, Braga, Douro and Madeira) and nine in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, Caucaia, Salvador, Guarajuba, Pernambuco, Touros and Angra dos Reis), with a total of 7,454 rooms and 15,286 beds.

Currently employing around 3,200 people, great part of Vila Galé's success is due to the close links that exist between the entire staff, making them a cohesive team that shares a strong passion for tourism and hospitality.

The capital investment of Vila Galé S.A. is thoroughly Portuguese, and it is divided between Jorge Rebelo de Almeida, who is the Chairman of the Administrative Board, José Silvestre Lavrador and Maria Helena Jorge.

Vision

Vila Galé intends to be a benchmark company in the hospitality industry, acknowledged among its peers, customers, partners, suppliers and staff for the quality of its product and the professionalism of its teams. And the group aspires to an economic growth that is sustainable, and socially and environmentally responsible, while seeking to be "Always close to you”.

Mission

Vila Galé favors the location, comfort and decoration of its units, the availability and the friendliness of its teams, the respect for its social and environmental context, and makes sure that will be "Always close to you”.

Values

Valuing - Training and motivating employees, dignifying their work and giving them advancement opportunities.
Innovation - Finding unique products and services.
Loyalty - Always honoring its commitments.
Ambition - Growing steadily in a sustainable way.
Guarantee - Respecting the quality standards of the brand’s product and service.
Accessibility - Always being available to welcome and listen.
Liberty - Presenting new ideas and suggestions.
Effectiveness - Promptly and accurately responding to all requests.

To apply the concepts of environmental sustainability, protection and preservation into the group’s activities;
To introduce the required processes to reduce water and energy consumption, and to ensure the due disposal of waste produced;
To seek competitive quality while continuously improving the processes, products and services in order to meet our stakeholders’ expectations;
To promote work health and safety in all activities carried out;
To foster good food safety practices;
To encourage the professional development and personal fulfillment of all company’s employees;
To support initiatives which contribute towards promoting social well-being and the preservation of nature;
To adopt economically feasible and socially equitable processes;
To comply with the applicable legislation, following responsible standards in cases where they may have been omitted or where they may not exist;
To share the good practices with the concerned public.

Vila Galé Social Responsibility

In what concerns Vila Galé's solidarity dimension, we highlight the group’s following initiatives:

Donation of 60 daily meals to the SOL Association and 50 daily meals to CASA – Homeless Support Center;
Donation of 0.50€ to social institutions for every satisfaction questionnaire that is filled by our guests;
Goods donation (furniture, electronic consumables, uniforms, textiles, dishes) to different institutions, when one of our hotels is remodeled or refurnished;
Organizing initiatives that involve our staff in supportive events;
The using of the area of our hotels to promote actions of blood donations;
Hiring social economy companies to provide some services;
Institutional cooperation aiming at the social and professional integration of potentially excluded people;
Providing services to bodies/projects with social purposes, in gracious or symbolic conditions to promote actions that support their activities;
Prize offers at charity dinners, promoted by entities of social nature;
Extension of the Vila Galé Club conditions to partners or members of social nature entities.

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About Vila Galé

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