Trends · data through September 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Raleigh-Cary, NC

Iceflower tracks 488 stores from 396 leisure & travel chains in Raleigh-Cary, NC. Fairfield Inn & Suites grew fastest over the last year, ahead of WoodSpring Suites 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
396
Tracked stores
488
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. Fairfield Inn & Suites and WoodSpring Suites sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Fairfield Inn & Suites ▲1 +14.3%
2 WoodSpring Suites ▲1 +10.5%
3 GameStop - +9.5%
4 Hampton Inn & Suites - +7.3%
5 Choice Hotels ▼1 +6.3%
6 Courtyard by Marriott - +3.6%
7 Buffaloe Lanes ▲1 -2.6%
8 Amtrak - -3.8%
9 Best Western ▲1 -4.2%
10 Frame Warehouse - -16.7%
11 Vision Martial Arts - -16.9%
12 Days Inn ▲1 -19.1%
13 Red Roof - -35.5%
14 Extended Stay America ▼4 -60.4%

Store footprint

Store map

488 tracked store locations in Raleigh-Cary, NC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 49 of the 488 stores (10%); 356 of the 396 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are parks, against 5% across North Carolina.

  • Hotels & Rentals (125)
  • Park (32)
  • Golf Course (31)
  • Sport Recreation Club (20)
  • Movie Theater (19)
  • Recreational Location (19)
  • Swimming Pool (16)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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