Trends · data through September 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Iceflower tracks 2,409 stores from 1,893 leisure & travel chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. AC Hotel grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Holiday Inn Express and Days Inn.

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
1,893
Tracked stores
2,409
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. AC Hotel and Holiday Inn Express sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 AC Hotel ▲7 +18.1%
2 Holiday Inn Express ▲2 +17.3%
3 Days Inn ▲2 +15.0%
4 The Revolution Darts & Billiards ▲4 +12.7%
5 American Legion ▲3 +12.6%
6 Super 8 ▲2 +10.1%
7 MGM National Harbor - +9.5%
8 Fairfield Inn & Suites ▲1 +9.4%
9 TownePlace Suites ▲5 +6.8%
10 Amtrak ▲1 +6.4%
11 Holiday Inn Express & Suites ▲2 +6.3%
12 Residence Inn ▲1 +5.1%
13 Country Inn & Suites ▲3 +4.0%
14 Hyatt Regency ▲4 +3.8%
15 Regal ▲1 +3.6%

Store footprint

Store map

2,409 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 149 of the 2,409 stores (6%); 1,759 of the 1,893 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are museums, against 9% across District of Columbia.

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