The hotel company that runs “the world’s only seven star hotel,” the Burj-al-Arab in Dubai, has signed an agreement with a developer in Bermuda.

It is anticipated the luxury hotel brand will arrive on the Island within the next three years with groundbreaking for a brand new hotel expected to start within the next year.

Famous around the world for the towering sail-like hotel that sits on the water’s edge in Dubai, which is marketed as the most luxurious hotel in the world, representatives of Jumeirah hotels and resorts have been on the Island this year and made an agreement to develop a project.

The news was delivered by Premier Ewart Brown as he spoke about the mixed fortunes of the former Club Med hotel site in St. George’s and plans for a number of new hotels in Bermuda during the coming three years.

One is a proposed Ritz Carlton business hotel at the Par-la-Ville car park site, and there are two others that should be firmed up as definite projects during 2007, one of them involving the Jumeirah group.