Trends · data through September 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Raleigh-Cary, NC

Iceflower tracks 482 stores from 392 leisure & travel chains in Raleigh-Cary, NC. Holiday Inn Express & Suites grew fastest over the last year, ahead of WoodSpring Suites and Hampton Inn & Suites.

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
392
Tracked stores
482
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 WoodSpring Suites sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Holiday Inn Express & Suites logo Holiday Inn Express & Suites ▲2 +19.1%
2 W WoodSpring Suites logo WoodSpring Suites ▲1 +11.8%
3 H Hampton Inn & Suites logo Hampton Inn & Suites - +9.9%
4 G GameStop logo GameStop - +8.5%
5 C Choice Hotels logo Choice Hotels ▼1 +6.7%
6 C Courtyard by Marriott logo Courtyard by Marriott - +5.0%
7 H Hampton by Hilton logo Hampton by Hilton ▼1 +1.1%
8 B Buffaloe Lanes ▲1 -2.1%
9 B Best Western logo Best Western ▲1 -4.5%
10 F Frame Warehouse - -18.9%
11 D Days Inn logo Days Inn ▲1 -19.4%
12 V Vision Martial Arts logo Vision Martial Arts - -19.7%
13 R Red Roof logo Red Roof - -35.6%
14 E Extended Stay America logo Extended Stay America ▼4 -58.7%

Store footprint

Store map

482 tracked store locations in Raleigh-Cary, NC, colored by category.

  • Hotels & Rentals (123)
  • Park (32)
  • Golf Course (30)
  • Recreational Location (20)
  • Sport Recreation Club (20)
  • Movie Theater (19)
  • Video Games (17)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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