Trends · data through July 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Iceflower tracks 1,160 stores from 911 leisure & travel chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Virginia DMV grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Days Inn and Holiday 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
911
Tracked stores
1,160
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. Virginia DMV and Days Inn sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 V Virginia DMV logo Virginia DMV ▲4 +17.0%
2 D Days Inn logo Days Inn ▲1 +12.3%
3 H Holiday Inn logo Holiday Inn ▲5 +9.9%
4 A AMF Bowling Co. logo AMF Bowling Co. ▲1 +8.4%
5 E Extended Stay America logo Extended Stay America ▲2 +8.1%
6 M Motel 6 logo Motel 6 ▲1 +7.4%
7 R Regal logo Regal ▲1 +5.6%
8 T Topgolf logo Topgolf ▲1 +3.9%
9 B Best Western logo Best Western ▲3 +2.4%
10 B Bowlero logo Bowlero ▲2 +2.1%
11 H Holiday Inn Express & Suites logo Holiday Inn Express & Suites ▲5 +0.9%
12 T TownePlace Suites logo TownePlace Suites ▲3 -1.7%
13 A AMC Theatres logo AMC Theatres ▲1 -4.6%
14 S SpringHill Suites logo SpringHill Suites ▼1 -5.5%
15 B Bowl America logo Bowl America ▲2 -5.7%

Store footprint

Store map

1,160 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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