Sustainability has undoubtedly emerged over the decades to become one of the (if not the) most dominant research topics in tourism related scholarship. Countless articles, books, reports and conference proceedings have explored, dissected and analysed terms such as ‘sustainable tourism’ and ‘tourism in the context of sustainable development’, while volumes of writings offer recommendations on how tourism can thrive in destinations and benefit the host community, while simultaneously minimising adverse damage to their ecological and cultural resources. In this chapter, my aim is to specifically highlight the role that tourist related work and workers play in the context of sustainable development. Among the matters I bring up, is the thorny issue of how the excessive levels of precarity that characterise many jobs in the tourism sector match the need to create so-called decent work as set out in the UN SDGs.