Scotland team manager Douglas Potter, along with director of performance rugby Graham Lowe, visited the city yesterday to check training venues and also Forsyth Barr Stadium.
Potter was excited by the new venue and the fact that Scotland may be one of the first teams to play in the venue, if it is ready.
"It is absolutely magnificent.
"If you can't play to your best and play good rugby in there, then I can't think of why you should be playing," he said.
Potter, who had only been in the job for eight days, moving over from a job as a project manager in the Royal Air Force, said Scotland would spend five nights in Dunedin and was looking forward to spending time in the Edinburgh of the South.
"Hopefully, the people down here can adopt Scotland as their second team and get right behind us, and then get Scots over from Australia and other places."
Potter said he was impressed by the organisation of Rugby New Zealand 2011 Ltd and there was a good number of Scottish people wanting to come to New Zealand for the tournament.
Scotland would spend more than a week on the Gold Coast before it comes to New Zealand.
It will play Georgia in Dunedin on September 14.
It has other games in Invercargill (Romania), Christchurch (Argentina) and Auckland (England).
For Lowe, coming to Dunedin was a homecoming of sorts.
He spent seven years in the city studying for a master's degree in physical education in the 1990s.
He went on to work with the Blues and the Hurricanes before joining the All Blacks as trainer from 2004-07.
He joined Scotland in late 2009 after 18 months with BMW Oracle in the America's Cup.
He said the Scotland team had made real progress over the past 12 months, with wins over the Springboks, Ireland, Samoa and Argentina.
