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The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you could envision that there might be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s casinos. Actually, it appears to be working the other way, with the awful market circumstances creating a bigger desire to gamble, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way out of the difficulty.
For almost all of the locals subsisting on the tiny local earnings, there are 2 popular styles of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else in the world, there is a state lotto where the chances of profiting are surprisingly tiny, but then the winnings are also very big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the concept that most don’t buy a ticket with an actual belief of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the local or the British football divisions and involves determining the results of future matches.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, cater to the very rich of the state and sightseers. Up until recently, there was a considerably big tourist industry, built on safaris and trips to Victoria Falls. The market woes and connected conflict have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has only slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which contain gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which has video poker machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a pools system), there is a total of two horse racing complexes in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the market has contracted by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and conflict that has come about, it is not known how healthy the sightseeing business which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the in the years to come. How many of them will carry through till conditions get better is merely not known.
