VIP taking in cool international city (7)
I believe the answer is:
nairobi
'city' is the definition.
(Nairobi is an example)
'vip taking in cool international' is the wordplay.
'vip' becomes 'nob' (I've seen this in other clues).
'taking in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'cool' becomes 'air' (verb - give some air to something).
'international' becomes 'i' (abbreviation eg in IMF).
'nob' going around 'air' is 'nairob'.
'nairob'+'i'='NAIROBI'
(Other definitions for nairobi that I've seen before include "I, a robin (anag) - city" , "African city" , "East African capital" , "Kenyan capital" , "Foreign capital" .)