The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be very little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. Actually, it appears to be functioning the other way, with the atrocious market circumstances creating a bigger eagerness to wager, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For nearly all of the locals surviving on the meager nearby wages, there are 2 established types of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the chances of hitting are remarkably low, but then the winnings are also unbelievably large. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that most don’t buy a ticket with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is founded on either the national or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other hand, pamper the extremely rich of the state and travelers. Up till a short time ago, there was a considerably substantial sightseeing business, based on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected violence have cut into this market.
Among 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 gambling den, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming tables, slots and video 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 casinos and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there is a total of 2 horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has contracted by beyond forty percent in recent years and with the connected deprivation and crime that has cropped up, it is not well-known how well the tourist business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of them will be alive until conditions improve is simply not known.
