Trends · data through September 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

Iceflower tracks 1,055 stores from 879 leisure & travel chains in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI. Emagine Theatres grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Best Western Plus 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
879
Tracked stores
1,055
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. Emagine Theatres and Best Western Plus sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Emagine Theatres ▲1 +10.3%
2 Best Western Plus ▲1 +8.2%
3 GameStop - +6.5%
4 Holiday Inn Express ▲1 +5.6%
5 Courtyard by Marriott - +3.4%
6 DoubleTree by Hilton - +1.3%
7 American Legion - +0.1%
8 Residence Inn ▲2 -0.9%
9 Hampton Inn & Suites - -1.3%
10 SpringHill Suites ▲2 -1.7%
11 AmericInn ▲2 -3.5%
12 Country Inn & Suites ▲1 -4.3%
13 Choice Hotels - -7.5%
14 Delta Air Lines - -13.4%
15 Hilton Garden Inn ▼1 -13.6%

Store footprint

Store map

1,055 tracked store locations in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 67 of the 1,055 stores (6%); 821 of the 879 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are historic sites, against 4% across Minnesota.

Top tracked chains by store count

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