Trends · data through September 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 19,932 stores from 16,217 leisure & travel chains in the United Kingdom. The Grand grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Virgin Atlantic and Club 3000 Bingo.

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
16,217
Tracked stores
19,932
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. The Grand and Virgin Atlantic sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Grand ▲10 +19.4%
2 V Virgin Atlantic logo Virgin Atlantic ▲9 +19.3%
3 C Club 3000 Bingo ▲3 +19.0%
4 L London ▲2 +18.0%
5 B Birmingham ▲8 +17.3%
6 V Victoria ▲9 +16.9%
7 G Greater Anglia ▲6 +15.7%
8 T Translink logo Translink ▲8 +13.6%
9 T The Crown Hotel ▲9 +12.3%
10 L Lothian Buses logo Lothian Buses ▲3 +10.0%
11 T The George ▲3 +9.4%
12 G Grosvenor Casino logo Grosvenor Casino ▲1 +9.0%
13 C Cineworld logo Cineworld ▲2 +8.9%
14 L London Stansted Airport logo London Stansted Airport ▲4 +8.6%
15 L Lane7 logo Lane7 ▲3 +8.6%

Store footprint

Store map

19,932 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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