Trends · data through September 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Wilmington, NC

Iceflower tracks 258 stores from 242 leisure & travel chains in Wilmington, NC.

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
242
Tracked stores
258
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.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 GameStop - -9.9%
  • Hotels & Rentals
  • Golf Course
  • Marina
  • Park
  • Museum
  • Art Gallery
  • Recreational Location
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

258 tracked store locations in Wilmington, NC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 15 of the 258 stores (6%); 231 of the 242 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are marinas, against 2% across North Carolina.

  • Hotels & Rentals (60)
  • Golf Course (24)
  • Marina (16)
  • Park (15)
  • Museum (14)
  • Art Gallery (12)
  • Recreational Location (9)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 GameStop 6
  • 2 Hampton Inn & Suites 3
  • 3 Extended Stay America 2
  • 4 Holiday Inn Express 2
  • 5 Moores Creek National Battlefield 2
  • 6 Quality Inn 2
  • 7 Choice Hotels 2
  • 8 Tru by Hilton 2
  • 9 Elks Lodge 2
  • 10 Atlantic Marine 2
  • 11 American Legion 2
  • 12 Ocean Isle 1
  • 13 Carolina Beach Motel 1
  • 14 Shallotte Lodge 727 1
  • 15 Creekside Yacht Club 1
  • 16 Carolina Marine Terminal 1
  • 17 Port City Pottery & Fine Crafts 1
  • 18 Pleasure Island Rentals 1
  • 19 Cape Fear Commons 1
  • 20 Tric 1
  • 21 Federal Point Yacht Club 1
  • 22 The Coastal Cottages of Ocean Isle Beach 1
  • 23 Museum of the Bizarre 1
  • 24 Ocean Isle Marina 1
  • 25 Sky Zone Trampoline Park 1
  • 26 Cameron Art Museum 1
  • 27 A Little Twisted Pottery 1
  • 28 Retroscape 1
  • 29 Shallotte River Swamp Park 1
  • 30 Breezeway Motel 1
  • 31 Bellamy Mansion Museum 1
  • 32 Saltwater Revival 1
  • 33 Southern 1
  • 34 Studio 6 1
  • 35 Museum of Coastal Carolina 1
  • 36 Bounce Parties and Games 1
  • 37 Eclipse Artisan Boutique 1
  • 38 Ocean Isle Inn 1
  • 39 Henderson Field Airport 1
  • 40 Intracoastal Angler 1
  • 41 Castle Bay Country Club 1
  • 42 Baymont by Wyndham 1
  • 43 SureStay 1
  • 44 Staybridge Suites 1
  • 45 Marina 1
  • 46 Dolphin Lane Motel 1
  • 47 Oak Island Par 3 1
  • 48 Extravaganza Wilmington 1
  • 49 Red Roof Inn Wilmington 1
  • 50 Old Baldy Lighthouse 1

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