Trends · data through July 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 1,493 stores from 1,199 leisure & travel chains in North Carolina. Golden Ticket Cinemas grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Holiday Inn and Topgolf.

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
1,199
Tracked stores
1,493
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. Golden Ticket Cinemas and Holiday Inn sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G Golden Ticket Cinemas logo Golden Ticket Cinemas ▲2 +15.5%
2 H Holiday Inn logo Holiday Inn ▲4 +13.1%
3 T Topgolf logo Topgolf ▲4 +10.1%
4 H Homewood Suites by Hilton logo Homewood Suites by Hilton ▲4 +10.0%
5 H Holiday Inn Express & Suites logo Holiday Inn Express & Suites ▲2 +6.9%
6 H Hilton logo Hilton - +5.5%
7 H Home2 Suites by Hilton logo Home2 Suites by Hilton ▲2 +3.4%
8 F Four Points by Sheraton logo Four Points by Sheraton ▲1 +1.8%
9 A AC Hotel logo AC Hotel ▲1 -0.1%
10 H Hyatt House logo Hyatt House - -0.2%
11 T TownePlace Suites logo TownePlace Suites - -2.2%
12 U Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park logo Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park - -4.1%
13 C Country Inn & Suites logo Country Inn & Suites ▼2 -4.3%
14 S Spare Time logo Spare Time - -4.3%
15 A AMC Theatres logo AMC Theatres - -6.0%

Store footprint

Store map

1,493 tracked store locations in North Carolina, colored by category.

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