Trends · data through September 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Winston-Salem, NC

Iceflower tracks 169 stores from 146 leisure & travel chains in Winston-Salem, NC. Holiday Inn Express & Suites grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Choice Hotels 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
146
Tracked stores
169
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 Holiday Inn Express & Suites ▲1 +7.1%
2 Choice Hotels - +2.9%
3 GameStop ▲1 -3.0%
4 Hampton Inn & Suites ▼1 -23.7%
5 Courtyard by Marriott ▼1 -31.5%
  • Hotels & Rentals
  • Golf Course
  • Recreational Location
  • Video Games
  • Museum
  • Park
  • Entertainment Location
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

169 tracked store locations in Winston-Salem, NC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 24 of the 169 stores (14%); 137 of the 146 tracked chains have a single store here. 12% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are golf courses, against 7% across North Carolina.

  • Hotels & Rentals (46)
  • Golf Course (21)
  • Recreational Location (8)
  • Video Games (8)
  • Museum (8)
  • Park (8)
  • Entertainment Location (6)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 GameStop 8
  • 2 Choice Hotels 7
  • 3 Hampton Inn & Suites 3
  • 4 Holiday Inn Express & Suites 3
  • 5 Courtyard by Marriott 3
  • 6 Days Inn 2
  • 7 Best Western Plus 2
  • 8 Holiday Inn Express 2
  • 9 American Legion 2
  • 10 Shattalon Lake 1
  • 11 Robert Hall 1
  • 12 Claybreakers LLC 1
  • 13 Rural Hall Bowling Center 1
  • 14 Studios 1
  • 15 Körner’s Folly 1
  • 16 WrestleCade 1
  • 17 Lexington 1
  • 18 Mount Tabor Track 1
  • 19 The Little Gym 1
  • 20 Carolina Thunderbirds 1
  • 21 Davidson Lodge 1
  • 22 Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance 1
  • 23 Skate Factory 1
  • 24 Washington Park 1
  • 25 Walnut Cove 1
  • 26 Sherwood Pool 1
  • 27 Old Salem Museums & Gardens 1
  • 28 Richard Childress Racing Museum 1
  • 29 Midway Campground Resort 1
  • 30 UnderPar Golf Lounge 1
  • 31 Gingerbread Manor of Clemmons 1
  • 32 Yadkin Country Club 1
  • 33 Maple Leaf Golf Club 1
  • 34 Americas Best Value Inn 1
  • 35 Lewisville Titans 1
  • 36 Winston-Salem Open 1
  • 37 Stokes County Arts Council 1
  • 38 Romeo and Juliet's 1
  • 39 JDL Fast Track 1
  • 40 Kernersville Reptile Zoo 1
  • 41 Kaleideum 1
  • 42 Legacy Lodge 1
  • 43 Bailey Park 1
  • 44 Green Valley Motel 1
  • 45 SECCA 1
  • 46 Winston-Salem Dash 1
  • 47 South Little League 1
  • 48 Moose Lodge 1
  • 49 New Sherwood Pool & Tennis Club 1
  • 50 Olde Homeplace Golf Club 1

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