The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you may think that there might be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be functioning the opposite way around, with the desperate market circumstances creating a bigger ambition to gamble, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For most of the people surviving on the abysmal local wages, there are two dominant types of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a national lotto where the odds of hitting are remarkably small, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly big. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the concept that the lion’s share do not purchase a ticket with an actual belief of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the UK soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pander to the astonishingly rich of the society and vacationers. Up till not long ago, there was a extremely substantial vacationing business, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic woes and associated conflict have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which have gaming machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has resulted, it is not well-known how well the tourist industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will still be around till conditions improve is merely not known.
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