Leisure & Travel Trends in North Carolina 2026

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. Holiday Inn and Golden Ticket Cinemas sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	H Holiday Inn	▲4	+15.8%
2	G Golden Ticket Cinemas	▲2	+15.6%
3	H Homewood Suites by Hilton	▲4	+10.4%
4	T Topgolf	▲4	+9.9%
5	H Holiday Inn Express & Suites	▲2	+6.6%
6	H Hilton	-	+4.5%
7	H Home2 Suites by Hilton	▲2	+2.5%
8	A AMC Theatres	▲1	+1.8%
9	A AC Hotel	▲2	+1.5%
10	F Four Points by Sheraton	-	+1.2%
11	H Hyatt House	-	+0.1%
12	T TownePlace Suites	-	-1.5%
13	S Spare Time	-	-3.7%
14	U Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park	-	-3.9%
15	C Country Inn & Suites	▼2	-4.2%