The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could imagine that there would be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be operating the opposite way around, with the awful economic conditions creating a bigger ambition to wager, to attempt to find a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the locals subsisting on the meager nearby money, there are two established forms of betting, the national lotto and Zimbet. As with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the odds of winning are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by market analysts who study the idea that most don’t buy a ticket with a real expectation of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, look after the astonishingly rich of the society and vacationers. Until a short time ago, there was a exceptionally big tourist industry, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected bloodshed have cut into this market.
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 hall, which has only 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, the pair of which contain gaming tables, slots and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also 2 horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has diminished by beyond 40% in recent years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has resulted, it isn’t well-known how healthy the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry through till things get better is basically unknown.
