The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may envision that there might be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the atrocious market conditions leading to a greater desire to bet, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the people surviving on the tiny local wages, there are 2 popular types of wagering, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the chances of winning are remarkably small, but then the winnings are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the concept that many don’t purchase a card with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the national or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, look after the exceedingly rich of the state and tourists. Until a short time ago, there was a incredibly large sightseeing industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected crime have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has resulted, it isn’t well-known how well the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will still be around till conditions improve is merely unknown.
