1.   Formerly bustling hotels are about half-empty, and the dropoff in business and vacation travel have cost thousands their jobs in the local services industry.

2.   In summertime, formerly bustling American ski areas are often sleepy places with plenty of empty rooms.

3.   She and the other vendors were hoping to catch a few final customers before city workers came to erase the last traces of this formerly bustling market.

4.   Their part of the formerly bustling port and tourist resort is now a rat-infested ghost town of dilapidated buildings and streets overgrown with shrubs and weeds.