Trends · data through September 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Columbia, SC

Iceflower tracks 290 stores from 254 leisure & travel chains in Columbia, SC. Choice Hotels grew fastest over the last year, ahead of GameStop and Days 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
254
Tracked stores
290
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. Choice Hotels and GameStop sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Choice Hotels - -5.0%
2 GameStop - -9.7%
3 Days Inn - -39.4%
  • Hotels & Rentals
  • Park
  • Golf Course
  • Family Fun Centers
  • Historic Site
  • Video Games
  • Entertainment Location
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

290 tracked store locations in Columbia, SC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 27 of the 290 stores (9%); 235 of the 254 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are parks, against 6% across South Carolina.

  • Hotels & Rentals (77)
  • Park (27)
  • Golf Course (16)
  • Family Fun Centers (14)
  • Historic Site (14)
  • Video Games (12)
  • Entertainment Location (10)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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