Trends · data through September 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX

Iceflower tracks 1,831 stores from 1,386 leisure & travel chains in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. Americas Best Value Inn grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Comfort Inn and AMC Theatres.

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
1,386
Tracked stores
1,831
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. Americas Best Value Inn and Comfort Inn sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Americas Best Value Inn ▲3 +19.9%
2 Comfort Inn ▲1 +16.3%
3 AMC Theatres - +15.0%
4 Residence Inn ▲5 +14.5%
5 Marriott - +14.4%
6 Hilton - +12.9%
7 Westin ▲2 +11.4%
8 Best Western Plus ▲1 +10.9%
9 Cinemark - +8.0%
10 SpringHill Suites ▲2 +7.8%
11 Holiday Inn Express ▲2 +7.8%
12 Hampton Inn & Suites ▲1 +6.8%
13 Super 8 ▲2 +6.6%
14 TownePlace Suites ▲4 +5.1%
15 Fairfield Inn & Suites ▲1 +4.6%

Store footprint

Store map

1,831 tracked store locations in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 140 of the 1,831 stores (8%); 1,278 of the 1,386 tracked chains have a single store here. 8% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are parks, against 7% across Texas.

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