Archive for April, 2017

Casinos in Botswana

April 30th, 2017

Botswana is one of Africa’s success stories; a region of assorted natural habitats, bountiful materials, as well as a swift-developing tourist location, attracted by its proximity to South Africa and also by its appealing game reserves and national parks. Botswana casinos are a expanding element of the economy, and casinos have developed in a number of cities in the country, inclusive of the capital, Gaborone, and the northern capital, Francis Town. Subsequently, the Botswana government has taken gigantic steps to certify that the buildup of Botswana casinos goes in line with the developing numbers of foreign travelers.

Francis Town is the gigantic city in northern Botswana and also home to 2 casinos, the Marang Hotel, as well as the Admiral at the Thapama Hotel. The city was the site of southern Africa’s earliest "gold rush" in the mid 19th century, which acquired visitors from across the globe in search of their fortune. Sadly for them, the gold proved challenging and exorbitant to mine, and many of the mining operations fell into disuse, even though a couple remain. Today, the casinos of Francis Town provide gamblers with the advantage to strike it lucky; there is still gold here, if you are actually blessed enough to find it!

Apart from Francis Town, the other main center for Botswana casinos is the capital, Gaborone. This is home to Botswana’s greatest casinos, the Grand Palm Hotel Casino Resort, which has seventeen table games and over two hundred and fifty slots and video gaming machines, the Gaborone Sun Casino, which is the initial and most considerable casino in Botswana, as well as a fresh development at the Gaborone Hotel. Consequently, the capital is making a bid to appeal to several of the games business away from its northern rival, and make itself a valuable stop for foreign individuals on the way to the national parks of Chobe and Okavango in the north of Botswana, which are the country’s finest tourist fascinations right now.

Africans like gaming, and Botswana casinos are set up to charm locals and its players from abroad. Grasping this, the government has been cautious not to exhaust the Botswana casino industry with standards and prohibitions, even though the industry has certainly thoroughly been scrutinized to guarantee that it preserves the highest levels of virtue. Consequently, the Botswana casino sector goes on to expand to meet the interest of individuals from all around, eager to find their fortune, like the prospectors of old.

Zimbabwe gambling dens

April 6th, 2017
[ English ]

The prospect of living in Zimbabwe is something of a risk at the moment, so you could envision that there would be little appetite for visiting Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it seems to be operating the other way, with the desperate economic conditions creating a bigger eagerness to wager, to attempt to locate a quick win, a way from the crisis.

For almost all of the citizens surviving on the tiny local wages, there are two popular forms of gaming, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with practically everywhere else on the planet, there is a national lottery where the probabilities of succeeding are remarkably tiny, but then the jackpots are also surprisingly high. It’s been said by economists who look at the idea that most do not buy a card with an actual assumption of hitting. Zimbet is founded on one of the domestic or the UK soccer divisions and involves determining the outcomes of future matches.

Zimbabwe’s casinos, on the other shoe, pamper the very rich of the country and sightseers. Up till a short while ago, there was a considerably big vacationing business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market anxiety and connected conflict have carved into this market.

Among Zimbabwe’s casinos, there are 2 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 slot machine games. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare has the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the two of which offer table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, both of which have slot machines and table games.

In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the aforementioned talked about lottery and Zimbet (which is very like a parimutuel betting system), there are a total of two horse racing complexes in the country: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the 2nd metropolis) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.

Given that the economy has deflated by beyond 40% in the past few years and with the associated poverty and crime that has resulted, it is not known how well the vacationing industry which is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the near future. How many of the casinos will survive until conditions get better is merely unknown.