新乡位于河南省北部,南临黄河,紧邻河南省会郑州,是中原地区经济、教育、交通的中心,也是以南太行为旅游地标的新型山水旅游城市,旅游业正在迅速的发展。同时,新乡历史文化底蕴深厚,拥有丰富的非物质文化遗产。本文将以新乡市为例,对非物质文化遗产保护与旅游业的发展进行初步探讨,对如何实现非物质文化遗产保护与旅游业发展互动进行研究,利用旅游的合理开发来保护和传承非物质文化遗产。一、新乡非物质文化遗产保护现状 Xinxiang is located in the northern part of Henan Province, south of the Yellow River, close to the provincial capital of Zhengzhou, Henan Province, is the Central Plains economy, education, transportation center, but also the South Pacific tourism landmark new landscape tourism city, the tourism industry is rapidly developing. At the same time, Xinxiang has a profound historical and cultural background and rich intangible cultural heritage. This paper will take Xinxiang as an example to discuss the development of the protection of intangible cultural heritage and the tourism industry, to study how to realize the interaction between the protection of intangible cultural heritage and the development of tourism, to utilize the rational development of tourism to protect and inherit the non-material Cultural heritage. First, Xinxiang intangible cultural heritage protection status quo