Trends · data through September 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

Iceflower tracks 914 stores from 741 leisure & travel chains in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. Residence Inn grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Red Roof and Holiday Inn Express & 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
741
Tracked stores
914
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. Residence Inn and Red Roof sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Residence Inn - +12.3%
2 Red Roof ▲1 +12.2%
3 Holiday Inn Express & Suites ▲1 +10.4%
4 Courtyard by Marriott ▲2 +10.3%
5 STI Turf Care Equipment - +7.0%
6 Regal ▼1 +6.1%
7 Home2 Suites by Hilton - +5.9%
8 InTown Suites ▲1 +2.0%
9 Hilton - +0.9%
10 Hampton Inn & Suites ▼1 -0.3%
11 Frame Warehouse ▼1 -1.2%
12 Fairfield Inn & Suites - -2.8%
13 Hilton Garden Inn - -3.2%
14 GameStop - -4.2%
15 Choice Hotels ▼1 -9.6%

Store footprint

Store map

914 tracked store locations in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 71 of the 914 stores (8%); 674 of the 741 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are parks, against 5% across North Carolina.

Top tracked chains by store count

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