Welcome to New Zealand...or at least welcome to the New Zealand section of rugbyworldcup.com.

We hope you will join us here in New Zealand for the seventh Rugby World Cup in 2011. We are a significant way down the path in our planning. The national effort to deliver a successful tournament is unprecedented.

For New Zealanders, we will be inviting you to participate in Rugby World Cup 2011 in a number of ways such as by coming to the matches, signing up to be a volunteer or finding out about the Rugby World Cup 2011 Festival and how you can be a part of it.

Make sure you keep coming back to rugbyworldcup.com for updates and details on the Tournament.

You can also join the ever growing online community of Rugby fans at

	www.facebook.com/rugbyworldcup
	www.twitter.com/rugbyworldcup
	www.youtube.com/rugbyworldcup
	www.flickr.com/rugbyworldcup

New Zealand's "Stadium of Four Million" will be ready to welcome the world in 2011. We hope you will be a part of it.

Martin Snedden
CEO
Rugby New Zealand 2011