The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you may envision that there might be very little appetite for supporting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be operating the opposite way, with the critical economic conditions creating a larger ambition to wager, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For most of the citizens living on the meager local wages, there are 2 established styles of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a state lotto where the probabilities of profiting are unbelievably small, but then the prizes are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who look at the idea that the lion’s share don’t buy a ticket with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is centered on one of the local or the English soccer leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, pamper the very rich of the society and tourists. Until a short time ago, there was a extremely big sightseeing business, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected crime 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 one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which have table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer slot machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforestated 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 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the economy has contracted by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and violence that has come to pass, it is not well-known how healthy the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will still be around until conditions improve is merely not known.