Trends · data through September 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA

Iceflower tracks 314 stores from 274 leisure & travel chains in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA. Courtyard by Marriott grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Choice Hotels and Hampton Inn & 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
274
Tracked stores
314
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. Courtyard by Marriott and Choice Hotels sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Courtyard by Marriott ▲1 +12.3%
2 Choice Hotels - +10.0%
3 Hampton Inn & Suites - +8.6%
4 Days Inn - +5.0%
5 GameStop - -2.9%
6 Elks Lodge - -6.6%
7 Fairfield Inn & Suites - -9.5%
8 Motel 6 ▲1 -26.1%
9 Super 8 ▼2 -38.6%
  • Hotels & Rentals
  • Golf Course
  • Park
  • Music Venue
  • Sport Recreation Club
  • Movie Theater
  • Entertainment Location
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

314 tracked store locations in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 25 of the 314 stores (8%); 254 of the 274 tracked chains have a single store here. 8% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are golf courses, against 14% across Iowa.

  • Hotels & Rentals (84)
  • Golf Course (24)
  • Park (17)
  • Music Venue (13)
  • Sport Recreation Club (12)
  • Movie Theater (12)
  • Entertainment Location (10)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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