The act of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a gamble at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be very little affinity for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. In fact, it seems to be operating the other way around, with the desperate market circumstances creating a bigger eagerness to bet, to try and find a quick win, a way out of the problems.
For almost all of the people surviving on the tiny local wages, there are 2 dominant forms of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. As with almost everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lotto where the odds of succeeding are remarkably low, but then the jackpots are also remarkably high. It’s been said by economists who look at the idea that the lion’s share don’t purchase a ticket with an actual assumption of profiting. Zimbet is based on either the domestic or the UK football divisions and involves determining the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other foot, look after the extremely rich of the country and sightseers. Up until a short while ago, there was a exceptionally big sightseeing industry, founded on nature trips and visits to Victoria Falls. The economic collapse and connected violence have cut into this trade.
Among 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 hall, which has just the slot machines. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has only slots. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slots and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, each of which offer gaming machines and tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s gambling dens and the aforementioned mentioned lottery and Zimbet (which is considerably like a parimutuel betting system), there are also two horse racing tracks in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Given that the market has shrunk by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the connected poverty and crime that has come about, it isn’t 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 be alive until conditions improve is merely not known.
0 Responses
Stay in touch with the conversation, subscribe to the RSS feed for comments on this post.
You must be logged in to post a comment.