Trends · data through September 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ

Iceflower tracks 4,169 stores from 3,442 leisure & travel chains in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Sonesta ES Suites grew fastest over the last year, ahead of DoubleTree by Hilton 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
3,442
Tracked stores
4,169
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. Sonesta ES Suites and DoubleTree by Hilton sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Sonesta ES Suites ▲6 +14.5%
2 DoubleTree by Hilton ▲1 +11.2%
3 AMC Theatres ▲2 +10.8%
4 TownePlace Suites ▲3 +10.1%
5 Sky Zone Trampoline Park ▲4 +8.8%
6 SpringHill Suites - +8.4%
7 La Quinta Inn & Suites ▲8 +8.0%
8 Kids Empire ▲9 +7.0%
9 American Museum Of Natural History ▲1 +6.6%
10 Intrepid Museum ▲2 +4.9%
11 Days Inn ▲7 +3.9%
12 Hotel Indigo ▲4 +3.2%
13 Hampton Inn & Suites ▲1 +2.0%
14 Hilton ▲1 +1.5%
15 Fairfield Inn & Suites ▼1 +1.4%

Store footprint

Store map

4,169 tracked store locations in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 216 of the 4,169 stores (5%); 3,274 of the 3,442 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are golf courses, against 7% across New York.

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