Types of travel articles:
Destination -- focuses on specific places, typically along “heavily traveled tourist routes"
Side trip -- “spins off the well-traveled route, revealing a new facet of a popular attraction"
Roundup -- a collection of information about serveral different destinations “with a common thread drawing them together"
Historical or holiday peg -- focuses on an anniversary, holiday or historical event
Outdoors/ recreation -- “involves physical challenge and an element of adventure"
Personal essay -- “[individual] perceptions and experiences told against the backdrop of life experience"
News peg -- focuses on areas of civil conflict
(Source: O'Neil)