The act of living in Zimbabwe is something of a gamble at the moment, so you might imagine that there might be very little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be working the other way, with the crucial market conditions leading to a greater eagerness to gamble, to try and locate a fast win, a way out of the problems.
For most of the locals subsisting on the abysmal nearby wages, there are two dominant forms of gaming, the state lottery and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lotto where the odds of hitting are extremely low, but then the winnings are also remarkably big. It’s been said by market analysts who study the subject that the lion’s share do not purchase a card with a real assumption of winning. Zimbet is built on either the domestic or the English football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, on the other foot, pamper the exceedingly rich of the society and tourists. Up until recently, there was a very substantial vacationing industry, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, there are 2 in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has 5 gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling den, which has only 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, both of which offer gaming tables, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which have gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the state: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second city) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Seeing as that the economy has deflated by more than 40 percent in the past few years and with the associated poverty and bloodshed that has arisen, it isn’t well-known how well the sightseeing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s casinos will do in the near future. How many of them will survive until things get better is merely not known.