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The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the moment, so you could imagine that there might be little desire for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the desperate market circumstances leading to a bigger desire to gamble, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the problems.
For most of the locals living on the tiny local wages, there are two common forms of betting, the national lottery and Zimbet. Just as with almost everywhere else in the world, there is a state lottery where the probabilities of profiting are extremely small, but then the prizes are also extremely big. It’s been said by economists who study the idea that the majority don’t buy a ticket with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is based on either the local or the United Kingston soccer divisions and involves predicting the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other shoe, pamper the incredibly rich of the state and tourists. Up till a short while ago, there was a extremely substantial sightseeing industry, built on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected conflict have carved into this market.
Amongst Zimbabwe’s casinos, 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 hall, which has just the slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, both of which offer table games, one armed bandits and electronic poker 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 blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling halls and the previously alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has diminished by more than 40% in recent years and with the associated poverty and crime that has arisen, it is not well-known how well the sightseeing business which is the foundation for Zimbabwe’s gambling halls will do in the in the years to come. How many of the casinos will carry on till things get better is merely unknown.
