The Travels of Marco Polo is a travel note on Asia, recording the conditions of many countries in Mid-Asia, West Asia, Southeast Asia etc, with highlights on the narration of China.

The book is divided into four volumes: the first volume records what Marco Polo and others saw and heard on their way to the Orient; the second volume narrates Kublai Khan of Mongol and his palace, capital, court, government, festivals, hunting and so on, and things happened on the way from Dadu southward to Hangzhou, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, and other coastal areas in southeast China; the third volume is a record of Japan, Vietnam, East India, South India, coastal regions and islands along the Indian Ocean and East Africa; the fourth volume tells the war between the descendants of Genghis Khan - the tartar kings as well as the conditions in North Asia. Each volume consists of several chapters, each chapter delineating the situation of a region or a historical event. There are altogether 229 chapters.

The number of countries and cities depicted in the Travels of Marco Polo reaches as many as over 100. To sum up, the contents about the places include landscape, landform, products, climate, business and trade, residents, religious belief, customs and conventions etc, and anecdotes as well as laws and institutions of the countries are also interspersed in between.

The Travels of Marco Polo caused a sensation in Europe and was reputed as "a rare book of the world". It exerted a huge impact on the cultural exchange between the East and the West.