The rural tourism, which is defined as all tourism activities performed in rural areas, is accepted as an alternativetourism type which will attract the people who want to go away from the difficulties of city life. On the otherhand; it allows the local residents to get a share from tourism incomes besides their agricultural incomes and toimprove themselves in socio-cultural way. As having convenient lands suitable for agriculture and tourism,Turkey has an important potential for rural tourism which cannot take enough advantage of this potential. Inorder to increase this potential, it should be considered to inform and encourage the local residents to participateinto tourism activities. In this context; the non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which are defined as theorganizations founded by local residents gathered voluntarily, work for the benefits of society and for a region’seconomic, political and social development; have an effective role. In this project, by considering their role intourism industry, it is searched that what kind of NGOs play an active role in rural tourism and what kind offunctions they have by using the literature review method used in qualitative methods. As a result of theresearch, it has observed that some countries such as Italy, France, Spain, etc. the capacity of rural tourismfacilities has been increased from one thousand beds to ten thousand in total. This suggests that rural tourismcan be an effective form of tourism in terms of income generation if due care is taken. At the end of the study,the rural tourism organizations in Turkey have examined suggestions on how to improve their function havebeen discussed with the comparisons made.