Trends · data through September 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Columbia, SC

Iceflower tracks 293 stores from 252 leisure & travel chains in Columbia, SC. Holiday Inn Express & Suites grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Choice Hotels and GameStop.

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
252
Tracked stores
293
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 Choice Hotels sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Holiday Inn Express & Suites logo Holiday Inn Express & Suites ▲1 +6.2%
2 C Choice Hotels logo Choice Hotels - -5.7%
3 G GameStop logo GameStop - -11.1%
4 C Courtyard by Marriott logo Courtyard by Marriott ▼1 -12.7%
5 D Days Inn logo Days Inn - -41.8%
  • Hotels & Rentals
  • Park
  • Golf Course
  • Historic Site
  • Family Fun Centers
  • Video Games
  • Motel
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

293 tracked store locations in Columbia, SC, colored by category.

  • Hotels & Rentals (80)
  • Park (26)
  • Golf Course (17)
  • Historic Site (15)
  • Family Fun Centers (13)
  • Video Games (11)
  • Motel (10)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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