Auckland International Airport inaugurated a $50 million worth of retail revamp after a couple of years of efforts and has re-assured that there will be no sign of construction activity in 2011’s Rugby World Cup.

The airport chief executive Simon Moutter said during the inauguration of the new duty-free region yesterday that there won’t be any orange cone or barricade at the time of the World Cup.

Portions of the airport had looked similar to a construction zone in the last couple of years with a lot of modifications and continuous building around the international terminal.

There is going to be a little additional shop fit out in the "airside" international duty-free and retail region for the leaving passengers and a little more work will be done on the bars and food outlets in the public side of the terminal. However, all this work will be got over with by the time the World Cup starts on 9th September.

There is also the expectation that the 263-room hotel in the car park outside of the international terminal will be made open by the month of July.