When you’re talking about categories of things, you can use the words sort, kind, and type interchangeably:

• Squiggly doesn’t like this sort of vacation.
• Squiggly doesn’t like this kind of vacation.
• Squiggly doesn’t like this type of vacation.

They all mean the same thing.

I was curious which phrase is more common, so I searched Google Books, and in both American and British English, kind of is the most popular. Sort of comes next, and type of is the least popular.

I tried a few different phrases to make sure I wasn’t muddying up the results with sentences that use kind of and sort of as qualifiers, such as I kind of like vacations, and the results were consistent. Kind of still won. 

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=That+is+the+sort+of%2CThat+is+the+kind+of%2CThat+is+the+type+of&year_start=1860&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CThat%20is%20the%20sort%20of%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CThat%20is%20the%20kind%20of%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CThat%20is%20the%20type%20of%3B%2Cc0

Finally, another common error when using these words is forgetting to make them plural when they follow the word these. It’s

• Aardvark likes these kinds of vacations.
• Aardvark likes these sorts of vacations.
• Aardvark likes these types of vacations.

That was your Quick and Dirty Tip: Sort, kind, and type are interchangeable.