Trends · data through September 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 2,368 stores from 1,870 leisure & travel chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. AC Hotel grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Days Inn and Hampton by Hilton.

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
1,870
Tracked stores
2,368
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. AC Hotel and Days Inn sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A AC Hotel logo AC Hotel ▲7 +17.5%
2 D Days Inn logo Days Inn ▲4 +16.3%
3 H Hampton by Hilton logo Hampton by Hilton ▲1 +14.0%
4 A American Legion logo American Legion ▲4 +13.2%
5 T The Revolution Darts & Billiards ▲1 +13.1%
6 H Holiday Inn Express & Suites logo Holiday Inn Express & Suites ▲3 +11.9%
7 M MGM National Harbor logo MGM National Harbor - +10.3%
8 S Super 8 logo Super 8 ▲1 +9.2%
9 T TownePlace Suites logo TownePlace Suites ▲5 +7.6%
10 F Fairfield Inn & Suites logo Fairfield Inn & Suites ▲1 +7.2%
11 H Hyatt Regency logo Hyatt Regency ▲4 +6.2%
12 A Amtrak logo Amtrak ▲1 +5.2%
13 R Regal logo Regal ▲1 +4.0%
14 C Country Inn & Suites logo Country Inn & Suites ▲2 +3.5%
15 S Sky Zone Trampoline Park logo Sky Zone Trampoline Park ▲1 +2.6%

Store footprint

Store map

2,368 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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