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This study investigates how peer-to-peer accommodation (P2PA) hosts in China have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic A multi-case study approach was adopted to depict the decision-making logic of three different types of hosts-speculators, diplomats, and entrepreneurs-based on an awareness-motivation-capability (AMC) framework under COVID-19 The findings highlight the role of owner motivation (profit/sharing/entrepreneurial-driven) and capabilities, such as having a unique value proposition and linkages with other hospitality experience, under COVID-19 Meanwhile, the platform collaboration capability failed to support survival during the pandemic Moreover, the current study indicated that, after the COVID-19, entrepreneurs will continue to innovate, diplomats\' operations will remain unchanged and speculators will quit hosting Hence, COVID-19 is an accelerator of P2P industry that reserving the hosts who embrace the original features of the P2PA sector, e g sharing and a focus on the experience, and eliminating the hosts who have diluted the uniqueness of the sector
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