A memorable and enriching stay can extend well beyond our hotels. That’s why The Ritz-Carlton proudly offers Impact Experiences, providing inspiring opportunities for our guests to contribute to the local community. Impact Experiences are compelling social and environmental impact activities where there is one constant – each program makes a lasting and authentic difference.

Impact Experiences offers on-property activities that can be incorporated in the conference agenda during lunch breaks, receptions and coffee breaks, including:

• Partnering with the hotel’s culinary team to prepare the ingredients for a regionally adapted dish for donation to a local hunger relief organization;
  
  
• Assembling school supplies and art materials in backpacks for donation to students whose academic success is threatened by poverty;
  
  
• Collaborating in teams to assemble emergency preparedness kits for shipping to a disaster relief facility or community organization;
  
  
• Designing and creating greetings and birthday cards for children in a local pediatric healthcare facility or children’s organization.
  
  
• Impact Hour, a platform for leaders from The Ritz-Carlton Community Footprints partner organizations to showcase how they are successfully addressing social and environmental issues.

Additionally, Signature Impact Experiences invite our group guests to take part in an off-site volunteer activity, unique to the destination.

Saving Fuel and the Environment

As one of the world’s great centers of automobile innovation, Wolfsburg is the perfect place to learn how to drive more fuel efficiently — without compromising performance. In this unique experience, a professional instructor accompanies group guests on a trip through traffic, evaluating driving styles and offering advice. Then in a second drive, guests can try out the more environmentally friendly techniques that they will take back home. 

Please contact your meetings and special events professional for details on how Impact Experiences can be matched to your group.

Environmental Responsibility 

Meetings and events at The Ritz-Carlton are carefully designed to create an unparalleled guest experience while protecting our natural resources. Together with our property-based Ritz-Carlton Environmental Action Conservation Teams (REACT) you and your attendees can support our efforts to reduce our environmental imprint and make a meaningful difference. Within our hotels, we reduce energy and water usage, offer a linen and terry reuse program, and utilize environmentally preferable cleaning products. Our meeting venues support a sustainable future by offering recycled paper products and pens, water service options, organic and local food and sustainable seafood options.

The Meetings Services App ((chime)) allows meeting planners to connect in real-time with Meetings and Events Concierges on any web-enabled device. With ((chime)), meetings management is at your fingertips 24/7. Planners may request service attention, in-room temperature changes, set up changes and a variety of billing services at the touch of a button. Meeting planners receive a response from the meeting and events concierge to confirm the request has been received and is being worked on.

More Chairs? More Coffee? Too Hot? Too Cold?

• With The Ritz-Carlton’s ((chime)) Meeting Services App, meeting management is at your fingertips:
  
  
• Lets you make real-time requests for coffee refills, VIP requests, shipping needs and almost anything else you might need
  
  
• Specific to each event & sent to you by the host hotel three days prior to your event start date. Connect wherever & whenever your need arises.
  
  
• Available in 20 languages, ((chime)) breaks down time and language barriers
  
  
• Manage your bill when & how you want. Ask a billing question before, during, or after your event.

• Conference concierge
  
  
• Business Center with fax, internet access, typing and copying services
  
  
• Shipping and receiving services
  
  
• Security services
  
  
• Electrical services
  
  
• Separate entrance to the conference center
  
  
• ((chime)) app for real-time meeting requests
  
  
• Conference concierge to assist with day-of organization and details
  
  
• Custom catering menus and sommelier services
  
  
• Simultaneous translation, remote lighting, touch screens and other tech services
  
  
• Kosmo Ballroom with space to host a conference for up to 220 attendees
  
  
• Five meeting rooms that can be arranged to accommodate an array of events
  
  
• Team-building experiences to benefit the local community