Trends · data through September 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC

Iceflower tracks 188 stores from 167 leisure & travel chains in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC. Hampton Inn & Suites grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Extended Stay America and GameStop.

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
167
Tracked stores
188
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. Hampton Inn & Suites and Extended Stay America sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Hampton Inn & Suites - +13.7%
2 Extended Stay America - -9.3%
3 GameStop - -36.0%
4 Red Roof - -46.6%
  • Hotels & Rentals
  • Historic Site
  • Golf Course
  • Entertainment Location
  • Art Gallery
  • Park
  • Music Venue
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

188 tracked store locations in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 19 of the 188 stores (10%); 155 of the 167 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are historic sites, against 3% across North Carolina.

  • Hotels & Rentals (59)
  • Historic Site (11)
  • Golf Course (11)
  • Entertainment Location (10)
  • Art Gallery (9)
  • Park (8)
  • Music Venue (7)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Hampton Inn & Suites 5
  • 2 Red Roof 4
  • 3 Extended Stay America 4
  • 4 GameStop 4
  • 5 Sheraton 2
  • 6 Marriott 2
  • 7 Home2 Suites by Hilton 2
  • 8 Choice Hotels 2
  • 9 Aloft 2
  • 10 La Quinta Inn & Suites 2
  • 11 Courtyard by Marriott 2
  • 12 USA Baseball 2
  • 13 Amtrak 1
  • 14 Hyatt Place Chapel Hill / Southern Village 1
  • 15 Occoneechee Golf Club 1
  • 16 Lucky Strike Water Tower 1
  • 17 Pine Ridge Apartments 1
  • 18 PlayMakers Repertory Company 1
  • 19 Chapel View 1
  • 20 New Hope Valley Railway 1
  • 21 Friends of Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation 1
  • 22 Holiday Travel 1
  • 23 East Chatham Little League 1
  • 24 Jordan Dam RV Park 1
  • 25 Westover Park 1
  • 26 Village Lanes 1
  • 27 Orange County Speedway 1
  • 28 NC Crafts Gallery 1
  • 29 Smokehouse Tactical 1
  • 30 Oak Grove Athletic Association 1
  • 31 Durham Bulls Athletic Park 1
  • 32 Kenan Center 1
  • 33 Cecy's Gallery & Studios 1
  • 34 Liberty Arts 1
  • 35 Duke Park 1
  • 36 Black August in the Park 1
  • 37 GeerHouse 1
  • 38 Zeitgeist Gallery & Bar 1
  • 39 Adam and Eve 1
  • 40 AC Hotels 1
  • 41 Big Daddy's Bar and Billiards 1
  • 42 Glazed Expectations 1
  • 43 Govenor's Club Golf Course 1
  • 44 Tru by Hilton 1
  • 45 Hillsborough Gallery of Arts 1
  • 46 Wheels Fun Park 1
  • 47 Triangle Curling 1
  • 48 NC Escape 1
  • 49 Rollingview Marina 1
  • 50 Bullcity Cab 1

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