Trends · data through September 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL

Iceflower tracks 1,295 stores from 1,113 leisure & travel chains in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL. Holiday Inn Express & Suites grew fastest over the last year, ahead of AMC Theatres 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
1,113
Tracked stores
1,295
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 AMC Theatres sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Holiday Inn Express & Suites ▲2 +11.5%
2 AMC Theatres - +9.1%
3 GameStop - +6.3%
4 SpringHill Suites - +3.6%
5 Pin Chasers - +1.7%
6 Holiday Inn - +1.4%
7 Choice Hotels - -0.1%
8 Busch Gardens - -2.7%
9 TownePlace Suites - -3.0%
10 Fairfield Inn & Suites ▲1 -3.4%
11 Courtyard by Marriott ▲1 -4.8%
12 Homewood Suites by Hilton ▲1 -6.0%
13 Hampton Inn & Suites - -6.7%
14 Hilton Garden Inn ▲1 -9.8%
15 Country Inn & Suites - -10.0%

Store footprint

Store map

1,295 tracked store locations in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 76 of the 1,295 stores (6%); 1,042 of the 1,113 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are historic sites, against 4% across Florida.

Top tracked chains by store count

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