Trends · data through September 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Minnesota

Iceflower tracks 1,632 stores from 1,338 leisure & travel chains in Minnesota. Marcus Theatres grew fastest over the last year, ahead of GrandStay Hotel & Suites and Best Western Plus.

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
1,338
Tracked stores
1,632
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. Marcus Theatres and GrandStay Hotel & Suites sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Marcus Theatres ▲4 +19.0%
2 GrandStay Hotel & Suites ▲3 +18.3%
3 Best Western Plus ▲3 +16.8%
4 La Quinta Inn & Suites - +16.2%
5 Holiday Inn ▲1 +14.1%
6 Fairfield Inn & Suites ▲1 +8.3%
7 Holiday Inn Express ▲1 +6.5%
8 Emagine Theatres ▲3 +6.1%
9 Choice Hotels ▲2 +4.1%
10 GameStop - +3.3%
11 American Legion ▼1 +0.7%
12 DoubleTree by Hilton - -1.6%
13 Marriott ▼1 -2.4%
14 SpringHill Suites - -3.6%
15 Hampton Inn & Suites ▲1 -4.0%

Store footprint

Store map

1,632 tracked store locations in Minnesota, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 114 of the 1,632 stores (7%); 1,266 of the 1,338 tracked chains have a single store here. 13% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are golf courses, against 7% across the United States.

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