Trends · data through August 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in California

Iceflower tracks 2,939 stores from 2,359 leisure & travel chains in California. Cinemark grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Ritz-Carlton and Hilton Garden 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
2,359
Tracked stores
2,939
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. Cinemark and The Ritz-Carlton sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Cinemark logo Cinemark ▲3 +11.9%
2 T The Ritz-Carlton logo The Ritz-Carlton ▲5 +6.6%
3 H Hilton Garden Inn logo Hilton Garden Inn ▲3 +5.5%
4 T TownePlace Suites logo TownePlace Suites ▲1 +3.5%
5 D Disneyland logo Disneyland - +3.4%
6 B Best Western logo Best Western ▲2 +2.0%
7 T The Lot logo The Lot ▲1 +0.7%
8 S Super 8 logo Super 8 ▲2 -0.1%
9 T Topgolf logo Topgolf ▲2 -0.8%
10 H Holiday Inn Express & Suites logo Holiday Inn Express & Suites ▲3 -0.9%
11 S SpringHill Suites logo SpringHill Suites ▼1 -1.8%
12 L La Quinta Inn & Suites logo La Quinta Inn & Suites ▲2 -2.1%
13 H Hampton Inn & Suites logo Hampton Inn & Suites ▲1 -2.6%
14 A AMC Theatres logo AMC Theatres - -5.1%
15 M Marriott logo Marriott - -5.3%

Store footprint

Store map

2,939 tracked store locations in California, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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