Casinos in Botswana
by Maximilian on February 23rd, 2010
Botswana is one of Africa’s success stories; a city of assorted natural ambiance, favorable lifestyle, additionally a swift-advancing tourist domain, enchanted by its proximity to South Africa and also by its appealing game reserves and national parks. Botswana casinos are a advancing area of the economy, and casinos have flourished in abundant cities in the country, like the capital, Gaborone, and the northern capital, Francis Town. Significantly, the Botswana government has taken great measures to ensure that the progression of Botswana casinos advances in line with the arising numbers of outside tourists.
Francis Town is the biggest city in northern Botswana and also home to 2 casinos, the Marang Hotel, along with the Admiral at the Thapama Hotel. The city was the site of southern Africa’s first "gold rush" in the mid nineteenth century, which appealed to folks from across the world in search of their fortune. Regrettably for them, the gold proved not easy and expensive to mine, and almost all of the mining operations fell into disuse, yet some remain. At the moment, the casinos of Francis Town provide players with the opportunity to get lucky; there is still gold here, if you are truly blessed enough to find it!
Apart from Francis Town, the other primary center for Botswana casinos is the capital, Gaborone. This is home to Botswana’s gigantic casinos, the Grand Palm Hotel Casino Resort, which has 17 table games and above two hundred and fifty slots and video gaming machines, the Gaborone Sun Casino, which is the earliest and most considerable casino in Botswana, as well as an innovative development at the Gaborone Hotel. Consequently, the capital is making a bid to bait several of the casino gambling business away from its northern competitor, and make itself a favorable retreat for foreign persons on the way to the national parks of Chobe and Okavango in the north of Botswana, which are the country’s choice tourist interests currently.
Africans love wagering, and Botswana casinos are set up to lure locals as well as guests from foreign. Realizing this, the government has been perceptive not to hound the Botswana casino industry with established codes and restrictions, though the industry has certainly efficiently been reviewed to ensure that it upholds the greatest standards of probity. So, the Botswana casino sector forges ahead to build to meet the requirement of tourists from all around, yearning to ascertain their fortune, like the prospectors of old.
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