The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you may imagine that there would be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling halls. In reality, it seems to be working the opposite way around, with the atrocious economic conditions creating a larger desire to gamble, to try and locate a quick win, a way out of the situation.
For many of the locals subsisting on the abysmal local earnings, there are 2 popular styles of wagering, the state lottery and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of profiting are extremely tiny, but then the winnings are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who look at the idea that the lion’s share don’t buy a ticket with an actual expectation of profiting. Zimbet is centered on either the national or the UK football leagues and involves predicting the outcomes of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pamper the extremely rich of the society and vacationers. Until a short while ago, there was a exceptionally large vacationing business, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic anxiety and connected violence have carved into this trade.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slots, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just one armed bandits. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slot machines and video 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 table games.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the aforementioned alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by more than 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and crime that has come to pass, it isn’t understood how healthy the tourist industry which funds Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry through until conditions improve is merely unknown.