The relative shortage in the numbers of, Mozambique’s casinos is in one sense quite bewildering, in one way or another.
In past years, the area was a location where several South Africans would check out to get away from the considerably restrictive policies on casino gambling (and, it has to be said, mixing with other races) that they had at home. Therefore, you could count on a concept of a booming sector to serve that tourist trade.
On the other hand, maybe it isn’t much of a discovery. The area is certainly the most bankrupt world wide, having gone through a distressing civil war (followed by devastating floods) from which it is still, very slowly, rebounding. This tends to make a location a lot less of a travel destination, even though there is now a inviting ambiance along a few of the city’s breathtaking beaches.
It is at the same time accurate that regionally somewhat, casinos in Mozambique have had to compete with several others in the freshly liberalized South Africa, which comprises of the prominent Sun City founded by the Kerzner family organization.
Here is a list of Mozambique’s casinos:
Maputo: Polana Casino Hotel
There are 78 slot machines and also video poker games, five tables of American roulette, four blackjack tables, and a poker table.
Namaacha: Sol Libombos Hotel Casino
There are forty slot machines, American roulette, and also two tables for poker as well as punto banco.
It is thought that over time the full tourism sector in Mozambique will thrive dramatically. While the local languages are, obviously, African, there is also the balance of Portuguese from the old colonial power and the fresh and developing origin of English, both from South Africa and as part of the world-wide phenomenon. The country is extremely cheap (evidently, as it is very poor) and as above, has some of the most breathtaking beaches on the globe, fronting onto the Indian Ocean. Those are the sorts of things that make tourism management drool, and as the country advances out of its current slump, it is likely that not only will tourism grow, but that the list of Mozambique’s casinos will grow longer too.
While the country is skeptical to ever regain its reputation as a location for partying South Africans, as there are now other selections closer to home for them to engross in, the expansion of a long distance tourism industry is being set-up. This would be to satisfy Europeans seeking winter sun, as a release from the bleakness of the Northern Hemisphere winter. And, clearly, the best prawns (shrimp) worldwide come from just offshore, in the Mozambique Channel.
