Trends · data through September 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Kentucky

Iceflower tracks 1,961 stores from 1,504 leisure & travel chains in Kentucky. Candlewood Suites grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Homewood Suites by Hilton and Kentucky Horse Park.

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
1,504
Tracked stores
1,961
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. Candlewood Suites and Homewood Suites by Hilton sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Candlewood Suites ▲1 +18.1%
2 Homewood Suites by Hilton ▲2 +17.4%
3 Kentucky Horse Park - +16.2%
4 Holiday Inn ▲3 +14.4%
5 Hampton Inn & Suites - +12.8%
6 Baymont by Wyndham ▲2 +12.6%
7 Holiday Inn Express ▲2 +12.1%
8 La Quinta Inn & Suites ▲1 +10.5%
9 Fraternal Order of Eagles ▲1 +10.4%
10 Delta Air Lines ▲2 +9.7%
11 Cinemark - +9.3%
12 Red Roof ▲2 +8.5%
13 Days Inn - +5.6%
14 Motel 6 - +3.9%
15 SpringHill Suites - +3.2%

Store footprint

Store map

1,961 tracked store locations in Kentucky, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 193 of the 1,961 stores (10%); 1,414 of the 1,504 tracked chains have a single store here.

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