Trends · data through July 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

Iceflower tracks 347 stores from 300 leisure & travel chains in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. Holiday Inn Express & Suites grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hilton and Hilton Garden Inn.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
300
Tracked stores
347
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked leisure & travel chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Holiday Inn Express & Suites and Hilton sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Holiday Inn Express & Suites logo Holiday Inn Express & Suites ▲1 +17.8%
2 H Hilton logo Hilton - +13.0%
3 H Hilton Garden Inn logo Hilton Garden Inn - +9.3%
4 C Courtyard by Marriott logo Courtyard by Marriott ▲1 +3.2%
5 H Hampton Inn & Suites logo Hampton Inn & Suites ▼1 -0.7%
6 C Choice Hotels logo Choice Hotels - -2.2%
7 F Fairfield Inn & Suites logo Fairfield Inn & Suites ▼1 -5.4%
  • Hotel
  • Golf Course
  • Park
  • Movie Theater
  • Bowling Alley
  • Amusement Park
  • Music Venue
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

347 tracked store locations in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC, colored by category.

  • Hotel (91)
  • Golf Course (40)
  • Park (22)
  • Movie Theater (18)
  • Bowling Alley (15)
  • Amusement Park (12)
  • Music Venue (12)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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