The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you could think that there might be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the awful market conditions creating a greater ambition to wager, to try and discover a fast win, a way from the difficulty.
For most of the citizens subsisting on the tiny local earnings, there are two established types of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the odds of profiting are extremely small, but then the jackpots are also remarkably large. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the situation that the lion’s share don’t purchase a ticket with the rational expectation of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the national or the English football divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the exceedingly rich of the state and travelers. Until a short time ago, there was a considerably large sightseeing industry, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and associated conflict have cut into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Centre in Kariba also has only one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, slots and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the previously talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has contracted by more than 40 percentin recent years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has cropped up, it is not understood how well the tourist industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the next few years. How many of them will still be around till things get better is basically unknown.
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