The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the moment, so you might think that there would be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be operating the other way, with the critical market conditions creating a higher eagerness to wager, to attempt to discover a quick win, a way from the situation.
For most of the people subsisting on the meager nearby money, there are 2 dominant types of betting, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of hitting are extremely small, but then the prizes are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that most do not buy a ticket with a real expectation of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the domestic or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pamper the exceedingly rich of the nation and travelers. Until not long ago, there was a very substantial tourist industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected conflict have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center 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, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has deflated by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not well-known how healthy the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry through till things improve is basically unknown.
