There is a place for lists. In my house and around my desk there are many: shopping, things to do (write column for Writing Magazine), particular reminders (sort vacuum cleaner – don’t ask!). All fine, but a great deal of care is necessary with regard to lists in travel writing.
Sometimes a list can be an essential form. Describing the six different types of room in a hotel, for example, or the various flight options to reach a specific destination. There may well be no differentiation necessary here, indeed it may matter little in which order you list things. Similarly a form such as ‘Ten top trips to take in Thailand’ may need little differentiation either, and such a device might constitute virtually all the structure necessary for an article; perhaps just topped and tailed with as little as a single paragraph.