Trends · data through September 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in New Jersey

Iceflower tracks 2,473 stores from 1,976 leisure & travel chains in New Jersey. Super 8 grew fastest over the last year, ahead of AMC Theatres and Sonesta ES Suites.

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
1,976
Tracked stores
2,473
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. Super 8 and AMC Theatres sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Super 8 ▲5 +17.8%
2 AMC Theatres ▲1 +11.5%
3 Sonesta ES Suites ▲5 +8.9%
4 SpringHill Suites ▲4 +8.2%
5 Kids Empire ▲5 +7.3%
6 Cinemark ▲2 +6.9%
7 Holiday Inn Express ▲3 +6.6%
8 Ramada ▲3 +4.3%
9 Regal ▲1 +2.8%
10 Residence Inn ▲1 +0.9%
11 Fairfield Inn & Suites ▲1 -0.0%
12 Choice Hotels ▼1 -1.8%
13 Hampton Inn & Suites - -1.8%
14 Homewood Suites by Hilton - -2.5%
15 Days Inn ▲1 -3.0%

Store footprint

Store map

2,473 tracked store locations in New Jersey, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 196 of the 2,473 stores (8%); 1,890 of the 1,976 tracked chains have a single store here.

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