The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the current time, so you might think that there might be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In reality, it appears to be operating the opposite way around, with the atrocious economic circumstances leading to a higher eagerness to wager, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For nearly all of the people surviving on the meager local money, there are two common forms of wagering, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the odds of profiting are remarkably low, but then the jackpots are also extremely big. It’s been said by market analysts who understand the subject that the lion’s share don’t buy a ticket with an actual expectation of winning. Zimbet is based on either the national or the British football leagues and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pamper the extremely rich of the country and tourists. Up until not long ago, there was a very large sightseeing industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and associated conflict have cut 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 one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, one armed bandits and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has shrunk by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and bloodshed that has cropped up, it isn’t understood how well the tourist business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry on until things improve is basically not known.