The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might think that there would be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it seems to be working the opposite way, with the crucial economic conditions leading to a bigger desire to bet, to try and locate a fast win, a way from the crisis.
For most of the people surviving on the meager nearby money, there are 2 established styles of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the odds of profiting are surprisingly small, but then the prizes are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by economists who look at the situation that the lion’s share don’t purchase a ticket with the rational assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on either the national or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other shoe, pander to the considerably rich of the state and travelers. Up until a short while ago, there was a incredibly substantial vacationing industry, based on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected conflict have carved into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has just the 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 two of which contain gaming tables, one armed bandits 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 aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of 2 horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has deflated by more than forty percent in recent years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has resulted, it is not known how healthy the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the next few years. How many of them will survive until conditions get better is merely unknown.
