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Spain's tomato-throwing festival kicks off. Here are top festivals this year. 

The tomato-throwing festival dubbed the "world's biggest food fight" kicked off in Spain on the heels of London's Notting Hill Carnival, a British Afro-Caribbean celebration, and ahead of the major cultural festivals of Oktoberfest, Dia De Los Muertos and Diwali, but it's not just fun that street festivals bring—economic experts say they’ve become a major tourism draw, are a pillar of the economy and create jobs that allow local communities to thrive.