Magazines are a highly competitive market. Still, surprises do happen.
Newspapers can be a good market for freelancers.
Although the pay is usually low, you can often sell the same article to newspapers in different cities. As with most travel writing, you'll have the best chance of selling an article to a newspaper if you're writing about a destination that hasn't received extensive coverage or that the newspaper's own staff hasn't visited. Somebody has to write the travel literature that fuels demand for airline seats, hotel rooms, tour packages, and other services of the travel trade. Corporate incentive travel is another growing market. When your local insurance company is sending its top 200 agents to Hawaii or Hong Kong, it needs someone to write a brochure that makes the destination enticing to agents and their spouses.