He described the region, its mineral resources and its inhabitants and their way of life, paying great attention to the native Morlachs.

[1] Fortis' book reached great popularity in Western Europe[2] and increased the interest on Croatia and other South Slavic countries among ethnologists and anthropologists.

[1] Furthermore, Viaggio in Dalmazia would start a new movement in Italian, Ragusan and Venetian literature known as Morlachism, which consisted on the portrayal of the Morlachs and their customs, traditions and lifestyle by Italian and other Western European writers.

[2] In 1776, the Croatian writer Ivan Lovrić, a native of Dalmatia, published Osservazioni di Giovanni Lovrich sopra diversi pezzi del viaggio in Dalmazia del signor abbot Alberto Fortis coll'aggiunta della vita di Soçivizça ("Observations of Giovanni Lovrich [Ivan Lovrić] on several pieces of the journey to Dalmatia of Mr. Abbot Alberto Fortis with the addition of the life of Soçivizça"), in Venice as well, as a response to Fortis' book.

Lovrić criticized Fortis' writings and tried to rectify some of his accounts about the people of Dalmatia on it.