The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you may think that there would be little appetite for going to Zimbabwe’s casinos. In reality, it appears to be operating the other way around, with the awful economic circumstances creating a higher desire to gamble, to attempt to discover a fast win, a way out of the difficulty.
For almost all of the people living on the tiny local money, there are two established forms of gambling, the national lotto and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a national lottery where the odds of winning are surprisingly small, but then the prizes are also unbelievably big. It’s been said by economists who look at the concept that the lion’s share don’t purchase a card with the rational assumption of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the English soccer leagues and involves determining the outcomes of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other foot, look after the very rich of the nation and tourists. Until recently, there was a exceptionally big vacationing industry, built on nature trips and trips to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected conflict have cut into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and one armed bandits, and the Plumtree gambling den, 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, the pair of which have table games, one armed bandits and video machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a pools system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has shrunk by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected poverty and conflict that has arisen, it isn’t understood how healthy the sightseeing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive until things improve is simply unknown.