This report presents findings from the first workshop and field course of Tourism Employment in the Arctic: Towards Decent Work. The 2025 objective was to examine precarity in Arctic tourism employment. The report outlines how flexible, insecure labour conditions shape tourism work, disproportionately affecting migrants, women, and youth, while noting that flexibility may benefit some workers. Country analyses reveal differing structural dynamics but shared patterns of rapid tourism growth amid systemic precarity. The report concludes that tourism’s economic role rests on a fragile labour foundation and calls for recognising tensions between growth and decent work. It proposes policy and research actions to strengthen labour rights, improve education and inclusion, and deepen understanding of workforce diversity, regulatory contexts, and sustainable people–planet–profit models.