The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might envision that there would be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be operating the opposite way, with the critical market conditions leading to a greater desire to gamble, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For nearly all of the locals subsisting on the abysmal local wages, there are 2 dominant forms of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the odds of succeeding are unbelievably small, but then the jackpots are also extremely large. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the subject that the majority don’t buy a ticket with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is based on one of the local or the English football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, look after the astonishingly rich of the country and travelers. Up until a short while ago, there was a very big vacationing business, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected bloodshed have cut into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. 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, both of which have table games, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there are also two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the economy has contracted by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and crime that has come about, it is not known how well the sightseeing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will carry on until conditions get better is basically not known.
