Peoria has gained a world-class educational and cultural destination, the Challenger Space Center of Arizona.

Mr. Etess said the casino looked at "what kinds of things were important to position us as a world-class destination."

But it is hardly Britain's fault that it has such an embarrassment of world-class destinations.

Brooklyn is already a world-class destination.

"It was good at positioning us as a world-class destination," Mr. Wachtel said, "but didn't give us a specific personality."

Only now is it beginning to re-emerge as a potential world-class international destination.

Renowned architect Peter Marino began a redesign of the center and it wasn't long before a world-class destination was born.

The vision of the project is "to create a world-class destination for residents, visitors and businesses in the world's fastest growing city".

What it could be is a world-class destination with its own brand identity.

City officials said they would match that sum, as part of an effort to turn the island into a "world-class destination."