Trends · data through September 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Asheville, NC

Iceflower tracks 226 stores from 207 leisure & travel chains in Asheville, NC.

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
207
Tracked stores
226
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. GameStop and Choice Hotels sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 GameStop - -10.0%
2 Choice Hotels - -19.6%
  • Hotels & Rentals
  • Art Gallery
  • Entertainment Location
  • Park
  • Recreational Location
  • Museum
  • Music Venue
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

226 tracked store locations in Asheville, NC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 16 of the 226 stores (7%); 194 of the 207 tracked chains have a single store here. 12% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are art galleries, against 4% across North Carolina.

  • Hotels & Rentals (80)
  • Art Gallery (28)
  • Entertainment Location (12)
  • Park (10)
  • Recreational Location (9)
  • Museum (9)
  • Music Venue (7)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Choice Hotels 6
  • 2 GameStop 4
  • 3 Hampton Inn & Suites 2
  • 4 Fairfield Inn & Suites 2
  • 5 Home2 Suites by Hilton 2
  • 6 DoubleTree by Hilton 2
  • 7 Black Mountain 2
  • 8 Courtyard by Marriott 2
  • 9 USDA Forest Service 2
  • 10 Country Inn & Suites 2
  • 11 Southern Highland Craft Guild 2
  • 12 Red Roof 2
  • 13 Super 8 2
  • 14 Bob Lewis Ballpark 1
  • 15 We Rock the Spectrum 1
  • 16 Blue Ridge Parkway 1
  • 17 French Broad Adventures 1
  • 18 Appalachian Pinball Museum 1
  • 19 The Groves at Town Center 1
  • 20 Home2 Suites by Hilton Hendersonville 1
  • 21 Asheville Art Museum 1
  • 22 Bluff Mountain 1
  • 23 Asheville Symphony 1
  • 24 Asheville Museum of Science 1
  • 25 Carriage & Trail Ride Barns 1
  • 26 Moxy Asheville 1
  • 27 Clarion Hotel 1
  • 28 Hendersonville Elks Lodge 1
  • 29 Bon Paul & Sharky's Hostel 1
  • 30 Days Inn Asheville West 1
  • 31 The Beaucatcher 1
  • 32 East Fork Farm 1
  • 33 Echo Mountain Inn 1
  • 34 Days Inn 1
  • 35 NC Arboretum 1
  • 36 Asheville Plays 1
  • 37 Hendersonville Country Club 1
  • 38 Gallery of the Mountains 1
  • 39 Asheville Regional Airport 1
  • 40 Philip DeAngelo Studio 1
  • 41 Country Days Corn Maze 1
  • 42 Level 256 Classic Arcade Bar 1
  • 43 Quality Inn and Suits 1
  • 44 Eliada Home Corn Maze 1
  • 45 Mills River Park 1
  • 46 Albemarle Inn 1
  • 47 Fine Arts Theatre 1
  • 48 Asheville Music Hall 1
  • 49 Beaufort House Inn 1
  • 50 Odyssey Gallery of Ceramic Arts 1

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