The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might envision that there might be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the desperate economic conditions creating a higher eagerness to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For almost all of the people subsisting on the tiny nearby wages, there are two dominant forms of betting, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of succeeding are surprisingly tiny, but then the jackpots are also unbelievably high. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that many don’t purchase a ticket with a real belief of winning. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the UK football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, look after the extremely rich of the nation and tourists. Up till recently, there was a considerably large sightseeing industry, centered on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected bloodshed have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree Casino, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Centre in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which have table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforestated alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by beyond 40%in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and violence that has come to pass, it isn’t well-known how healthy the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive till things get better is simply unknown.