Trends · data through August 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Raleigh-Cary, NC

Iceflower tracks 200 stores from 176 leisure & travel chains in Raleigh-Cary, NC. Holiday Inn Express & Suites grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Choice Hotels and Hampton by Hilton.

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
176
Tracked stores
200
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. Holiday Inn Express & Suites and Choice Hotels sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Holiday Inn Express & Suites logo Holiday Inn Express & Suites - -1.0%
2 C Choice Hotels logo Choice Hotels - -3.4%
3 H Hampton by Hilton logo Hampton by Hilton - -5.8%
4 B Buffaloe Lanes - -6.2%
5 H Hampton Inn & Suites logo Hampton Inn & Suites - -10.2%
6 C Courtyard by Marriott logo Courtyard by Marriott - -11.3%
  • Hotel
  • Golf Course
  • Movie Theater
  • Bowling Alley
  • Park
  • Music Venue
  • Amusement Park
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

200 tracked store locations in Raleigh-Cary, NC, colored by category.

  • Hotel (63)
  • Golf Course (18)
  • Movie Theater (15)
  • Bowling Alley (10)
  • Park (10)
  • Music Venue (8)
  • Amusement Park (8)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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