The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might envision that there would be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it appears to be working the other way around, with the crucial economic conditions creating a bigger desire to bet, to try and locate a quick win, a way from the situation.
For many of the locals living on the abysmal local wages, there are two popular styles of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of winning are remarkably tiny, but then the jackpots are also remarkably large. It’s been said by economists who look at the idea that the majority do not purchase a ticket with an actual belief of winning. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the English football leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the astonishingly rich of the country and tourists. Up until not long ago, there was a exceptionally big vacationing industry, founded on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected bloodshed have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, 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 two of which offer table games, slot machines and video poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has deflated by more than 40 percent in recent years and with the associated deprivation and conflict that has arisen, it isn’t known how healthy the tourist industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will carry on till conditions improve is basically unknown.
