The region promotes ecotourism to help preserve the biosphere with various enterprises offering cabins, camping, access and guides for hiking and mountain-biking trails, horseback riding, bird-watching, and cave exploration.

It also has the Centro de Medicina Indígena Tradicional (Center for Indigenous Traditional Medicine) which is sponsored by the Mexican Secretary of Health.

It is open to the public, including tourists and offers native herbal medicines, massages, temascals and ritual cleansings.

The other three reside in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, el Valle and the Sierra Madre Oriental.

The bene xon divide into four sub-cultures: Cajonos, El Rincón, Ixtlán and Choapan.