The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might think that there would be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it seems to be working the other way around, with the atrocious economic circumstances creating a larger desire to wager, to attempt to find a quick win, a way from the situation.
For the majority of the people surviving on the meager local earnings, there are two established styles of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the odds of hitting are remarkably low, but then the prizes are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who understand the idea that many don’t purchase a card with an actual expectation of hitting. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the English soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pamper the very rich of the nation and sightseers. Until not long ago, there was a incredibly large tourist business, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected conflict have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree Casino, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and bloodshed that has arisen, it isn’t understood how well the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will survive until things improve is merely not known.
