Rotorua's dedicated All Black fans are being encouraged to get out and give a handful of the national side's members a rousing welcome as part of a one day visit.

Next Thursday the Bay of Plenty town will play host to some of this years All Blacks, for the annual 'All Blacks to the Nation” provincial visits.

Liam Messam and James Whitaker during the All Blacks visit to Tauranga in 2013.

In keeping with a tradition started in 2011, the All Blacks will spend the day having fun with various schools and communities nationwide Paihia, Rotorua, the Kapiti Coast, Greymouth and Ashburton.

Which All Blacks will visit each area will be announced next week, but Rotorua will be hoping for the likes of former Rotorua Boys' High School student Liam Messam and Reporoa's Sam Cane.

A range of activities are being organised in the towns, including school visits, civic events, autograph sessions, fun activities with kids, Rippa rugby games and hospital visits.

The visits are scheduled before the side assembles in Auckland to prepare for the opening Investec Rugby Championship Bledisloe Cup Test against Australia.

Rotorua Boys' High School will host the All Blacks, after which the players will head to a civic event to take part in a mass jump jam activity and autograph signing session in Eat Street from 11.15am to 12.30pm.

Bay of Plenty Rugby Union chief executive Mike Rogers says it is an exciting opportunity for the Rotorua community.

'Hopefully everyone can come out and give them a great BOP welcome.”

All Blacks Manager Darren Shand says heading to towns that did not usually host All Blacks is one small way the team can acknowledge the support from loyal fans in the provinces.

'We really appreciate the support of our fans and we know it's sometimes harder for fans in the smaller towns to get to see the All Blacks. So we are taking the players to them,” says Shand.

'The players really look forward to the day and always come back into camp buzzing after their day out.”

He says many current All Blacks can relate to fans from small-town New Zealand.

'People forget that quite a few players in the team come from small towns, including Richie who is from the North Otago community of Kurow, so they certainly relate to fans in the provincial heartland.”

Other All Blacks from smaller towns include lock Brodie Retallick, who hails from the North Canterbury town of Amberley, his locking partner Sam Whitelock, who is from the Manawatu town of Linton, and first five-eighth Beauden Barrett who grew up on a farm in the coastal Taranaki town of Pungarehu.