Trends · data through September 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Iowa

Iceflower tracks 1,225 stores from 983 leisure & travel chains in Iowa. Country Inn & Suites grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Days Inn and Video Games Etc.

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
983
Tracked stores
1,225
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. Country Inn & Suites and Days Inn sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Country Inn & Suites logo Country Inn & Suites - +19.4%
2 D Days Inn logo Days Inn ▲2 +17.9%
3 V Video Games Etc - +15.9%
4 C Cinemark logo Cinemark - +15.1%
5 C Choice Hotels logo Choice Hotels - +14.1%
6 H Hampton by Hilton logo Hampton by Hilton - +11.6%
7 H Holiday Inn Express & Suites logo Holiday Inn Express & Suites ▲2 +11.6%
8 M Motel 6 logo Motel 6 ▲2 +6.7%
9 F Fairfield Inn & Suites logo Fairfield Inn & Suites - +4.3%
10 A AmericInn logo AmericInn - -2.0%
11 B Baymont by Wyndham logo Baymont by Wyndham - -10.2%
12 A American Legion logo American Legion ▲1 -10.7%
13 C Courtyard by Marriott logo Courtyard by Marriott ▼2 -11.7%
14 G GameStop logo GameStop - -15.6%
15 S Super 8 logo Super 8 ▼1 -15.7%

Store footprint

Store map

1,225 tracked store locations in Iowa, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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