The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you might envision that there might be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. In fact, it seems to be working the other way, with the crucial economic conditions creating a bigger ambition to bet, to attempt to find a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For many of the people living on the meager local money, there are 2 popular types of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of profiting are extremely small, but then the winnings are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who study the situation that the majority do not buy a ticket with the rational expectation of hitting. Zimbet is built on either the local or the United Kingston football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other hand, pander to the considerably rich of the nation and sightseers. Up until not long ago, there was a considerably large vacationing industry, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected violence have carved into this trade.
Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which contain table games, slot machines and video machines, and Victoria Falls houses the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the pair of which offer slot machines and table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there are also 2 horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has contracted by more than forty percent in the past few years and with the associated deprivation and bloodshed that has cropped up, it is not known how well the vacationing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry through till things improve is simply unknown.