Traditional villages in the Mid-Spine Belt of Beautiful China are abundant in tourism resources and have a high tourism value. Conducting tourist flow study helps to promote the preservation of traditional village tourism resources and rural revitalization in the MSBBC. Based on online travel data, ArcGIS and social network analysis techniques were used to examine the network structure features and the spatial and temporal distribution of the traditional village tourist flow in MSBBC. Findings indicate that short- and medium-term tourism dominates the tourism flow in traditional villages in MSBBC in terms of temporal distribution, with notable seasonal variations. The Yunnan village of Shuanglang serves as the hub of the entire geographical distribution pattern of the tourism flow. Three categories may be used to categorize the geographical distribution patterns seen in various provinces: "single-core and multipoint," "dual-core and multipoint," and "multi-core and multipoint." The traditional village tourist flow network density in MSBBC is low. Traditional village tourism nodes have a rather loose link with one another, and they rely on non-traditional village nodes. Core nodes mainly belong to "mixed core type", has no significant radiative effect on the edge node.