diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 2c2fe62d3f4..80064ff1602 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -23,36 +23,35 @@ env:
     - PACKAGE='Homogeneous_kernel Hyperbolic_triangulation_2 Inscribed_areas '
     - PACKAGE='Installation Interpolation Intersections_2 '
     - PACKAGE='Intersections_3 Interval_skip_list Interval_support '
-    - PACKAGE='Inventor Jet_fitting_3 Kernel_23 '
-    - PACKAGE='Kernel_d LEDA Linear_cell_complex '
-    - PACKAGE='MacOSX Maintenance Matrix_search '
-    - PACKAGE='Mesh_2 Mesh_3 Mesher_level '
-    - PACKAGE='Minkowski_sum_2 Minkowski_sum_3 Modifier '
-    - PACKAGE='Modular_arithmetic Nef_2 Nef_3 '
-    - PACKAGE='Nef_S2 NewKernel_d Number_types '
-    - PACKAGE='OpenNL Optimal_bounding_box Optimal_transportation_reconstruction_2 '
-    - PACKAGE='Optimisation_basic Partition_2 Periodic_2_triangulation_2 '
-    - PACKAGE='Periodic_3_mesh_3 Periodic_3_triangulation_3 Periodic_4_hyperbolic_triangulation_2 '
-    - PACKAGE='Point_set_2 Point_set_3 Point_set_processing_3 '
-    - PACKAGE='Poisson_surface_reconstruction_3 Polygon Polygon_mesh_processing '
-    - PACKAGE='Polygonal_surface_reconstruction Polyhedron Polyhedron_IO '
-    - PACKAGE='Polyline_simplification_2 Polynomial Polytope_distance_d '
-    - PACKAGE='Principal_component_analysis Principal_component_analysis_LGPL Profiling_tools '
-    - PACKAGE='Property_map QP_solver Random_numbers '
-    - PACKAGE='Ridges_3 STL_Extension Scale_space_reconstruction_3 '
-    - PACKAGE='Scripts SearchStructures Segment_Delaunay_graph_2 '
-    - PACKAGE='Segment_Delaunay_graph_Linf_2 Set_movable_separability_2 Shape_detection '
-    - PACKAGE='Skin_surface_3 Snap_rounding_2 Solver_interface '
-    - PACKAGE='Spatial_searching Spatial_sorting Straight_skeleton_2 '
-    - PACKAGE='Stream_lines_2 Stream_support Subdivision_method_3 '
-    - PACKAGE='Surface_mesh Surface_mesh_approximation Surface_mesh_deformation '
-    - PACKAGE='Surface_mesh_parameterization Surface_mesh_segmentation Surface_mesh_shortest_path '
-    - PACKAGE='Surface_mesh_simplification Surface_mesh_skeletonization Surface_mesh_topology '
-    - PACKAGE='Surface_mesher Surface_sweep_2 TDS_2 '
-    - PACKAGE='TDS_3 Testsuite Tetrahedral_remeshing '
-    - PACKAGE='Three Triangulation Triangulation_2 '
-    - PACKAGE='Triangulation_3 Union_find Visibility_2 '
-    - PACKAGE='Voronoi_diagram_2 wininst '
+    - PACKAGE='Jet_fitting_3 Kernel_23 Kernel_d '
+    - PACKAGE='LEDA Linear_cell_complex MacOSX '
+    - PACKAGE='Maintenance Matrix_search Mesh_2 '
+    - PACKAGE='Mesh_3 Mesher_level Minkowski_sum_2 '
+    - PACKAGE='Minkowski_sum_3 Modifier Modular_arithmetic '
+    - PACKAGE='Nef_2 Nef_3 Nef_S2 '
+    - PACKAGE='NewKernel_d Number_types OpenNL '
+    - PACKAGE='Optimal_bounding_box Optimal_transportation_reconstruction_2 Optimisation_basic '
+    - PACKAGE='Partition_2 Periodic_2_triangulation_2 Periodic_3_mesh_3 '
+    - PACKAGE='Periodic_3_triangulation_3 Periodic_4_hyperbolic_triangulation_2 Point_set_2 '
+    - PACKAGE='Point_set_3 Point_set_processing_3 Poisson_surface_reconstruction_3 '
+    - PACKAGE='Polygon Polygon_mesh_processing Polygonal_surface_reconstruction '
+    - PACKAGE='Polyhedron Polyline_simplification_2 Polynomial '
+    - PACKAGE='Polytope_distance_d Principal_component_analysis Principal_component_analysis_LGPL '
+    - PACKAGE='Profiling_tools Property_map QP_solver '
+    - PACKAGE='Random_numbers Ridges_3 STL_Extension '
+    - PACKAGE='Scale_space_reconstruction_3 Scripts SearchStructures '
+    - PACKAGE='Segment_Delaunay_graph_2 Segment_Delaunay_graph_Linf_2 Set_movable_separability_2 '
+    - PACKAGE='Shape_detection Skin_surface_3 Snap_rounding_2 '
+    - PACKAGE='Solver_interface Spatial_searching Spatial_sorting '
+    - PACKAGE='Straight_skeleton_2 Stream_lines_2 Stream_support '
+    - PACKAGE='Subdivision_method_3 Surface_mesh Surface_mesh_approximation '
+    - PACKAGE='Surface_mesh_deformation Surface_mesh_parameterization Surface_mesh_segmentation '
+    - PACKAGE='Surface_mesh_shortest_path Surface_mesh_simplification Surface_mesh_skeletonization '
+    - PACKAGE='Surface_mesh_topology Surface_mesher Surface_sweep_2 '
+    - PACKAGE='TDS_2 TDS_3 Testsuite '
+    - PACKAGE='Tetrahedral_remeshing Three Triangulation '
+    - PACKAGE='Triangulation_2 Triangulation_3 Union_find '
+    - PACKAGE='Visibility_2 Voronoi_diagram_2 wininst '
 compiler: clang
 install:
   - echo "$PWD"
diff --git a/.travis/packages.txt b/.travis/packages.txt
index 6e75cd0ad14..b4874d76f4a 100644
--- a/.travis/packages.txt
+++ b/.travis/packages.txt
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ Intersections_2
 Intersections_3
 Interval_skip_list
 Interval_support
-Inventor
 Jet_fitting_3
 Kernel_23
 Kernel_d
@@ -87,7 +86,6 @@ Polygon
 Polygon_mesh_processing
 Polygonal_surface_reconstruction
 Polyhedron
-Polyhedron_IO
 Polyline_simplification_2
 Polynomial
 Polytope_distance_d
diff --git a/Polyhedron/doc/Polyhedron/Doxyfile.in b/Polyhedron/doc/Polyhedron/Doxyfile.in
index 45cbd9c4279..fa4344c40fc 100644
--- a/Polyhedron/doc/Polyhedron/Doxyfile.in
+++ b/Polyhedron/doc/Polyhedron/Doxyfile.in
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
 @INCLUDE = ${CGAL_DOC_PACKAGE_DEFAULTS}
-
 PROJECT_NAME = "CGAL ${CGAL_DOC_VERSION} - 3D Polyhedral Surface"
-EXAMPLE_PATH += ${CGAL_Polyhedron_IO_EXAMPLE_DIR}
diff --git a/Polyhedron/doc/Polyhedron/Polyhedron.txt b/Polyhedron/doc/Polyhedron/Polyhedron.txt
index 08c6902f8fe..4dcef22d407 100644
--- a/Polyhedron/doc/Polyhedron/Polyhedron.txt
+++ b/Polyhedron/doc/Polyhedron/Polyhedron.txt
@@ -366,13 +366,6 @@ Section \ref sectionPolyIntro.
 For more information, you can see the \ref IOstreamPolygonMeshIO
 section.
 
-Some example programs around the different file formats are provided
-in the distribution under <TT>examples/Polyhedron_IO/</TT> and
-<TT>demo/Polyhedron_IO/</TT>. We show an example converting OFF input
-into VRML 1.0 output.
-
-\cgalExample{Polyhedron/polyhedron2vrml.cpp}
-
 \section PolyhedronExtending Extending Vertices, Halfedges, and Facets
 
 \anchor sectionPolyExtend
diff --git a/Polyhedron_IO/include/CGAL/IO/OBJ_reader.h b/Polyhedron_IO/include/CGAL/IO/OBJ_reader.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 03400704c27..00000000000
--- a/Polyhedron_IO/include/CGAL/IO/OBJ_reader.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2016 GeometryFactory
-//
-// This file is part of CGAL (www.cgal.org)
-//
-// $URL$
-// $Id$
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later OR LicenseRef-Commercial
-//
-// Author(s)     : Andreas Fabri and Maxime Gimeno
-
-#ifndef CGAL_IO_OBJ_READER_H
-#define CGAL_IO_OBJ_READER_H
-
-#define CGAL_DEPRECATED_HEADER "<CGAL/IO/OBJ_reader.h>"
-#define CGAL_REPLACEMENT_HEADER "<CGAL/IO/OBJ.h>"
-#include <CGAL/internal/deprecation_warning.h>
-
-#include <CGAL/IO/OBJ/OBJ_reader.h>
-
-#endif // CGAL_IO_OBJ_READER_H
diff --git a/Polyhedron_IO/include/CGAL/IO/OFF_reader.h b/Polyhedron_IO/include/CGAL/IO/OFF_reader.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 3f8f73830f5..00000000000
--- a/Polyhedron_IO/include/CGAL/IO/OFF_reader.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2015 GeometryFactory
-//
-// This file is part of CGAL (www.cgal.org)
-//
-// $URL$
-// $Id$
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later OR LicenseRef-Commercial
-//
-// Author(s)     : Laurent Rineau and Sebastien Loriot
-
-#ifndef CGAL_IO_OFF_READER_H
-#define CGAL_IO_OFF_READER_H
-
-#define CGAL_DEPRECATED_HEADER "<CGAL/IO/OFF_reader.h>"
-#define CGAL_REPLACEMENT_HEADER "<CGAL/IO/OFF.h>"
-#include <CGAL/internal/deprecation_warning.h>
-
-#include <CGAL/IO/OFF.h>
-
-#endif // CGAL_IO_OFF_READER_H
diff --git a/Polyhedron_IO/include/CGAL/IO/PLY_reader.h b/Polyhedron_IO/include/CGAL/IO/PLY_reader.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 59536a33d67..00000000000
--- a/Polyhedron_IO/include/CGAL/IO/PLY_reader.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2017 GeometryFactory
-//
-// This file is part of CGAL (www.cgal.org)
-//
-// $URL$
-// $Id$
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later OR LicenseRef-Commercial
-//
-// Author(s)     : Simon Giraudot
-
-#ifndef CGAL_IO_PLY_READER_H
-#define CGAL_IO_PLY_READER_H
-
-#define CGAL_DEPRECATED_HEADER "<CGAL/IO/PLY_reader.h>"
-#define CGAL_REPLACEMENT_HEADER "<CGAL/IO/PLY.h>"
-#include <CGAL/internal/deprecation_warning.h>
-
-#include <CGAL/IO/PLY/PLY_reader.h>
-
-#endif // CGAL_IO_PLY_READER_H
diff --git a/Polyhedron_IO/include/CGAL/IO/PLY_writer.h b/Polyhedron_IO/include/CGAL/IO/PLY_writer.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 1ee55abe953..00000000000
--- a/Polyhedron_IO/include/CGAL/IO/PLY_writer.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2017 GeometryFactory
-//
-// This file is part of CGAL (www.cgal.org)
-//
-// $URL$
-// $Id$
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later OR LicenseRef-Commercial
-//
-// Author(s)     : Simon Giraudot
-
-#ifndef CGAL_IO_PLY_WRITER_H
-#define CGAL_IO_PLY_WRITER_H
-
-#define CGAL_DEPRECATED_HEADER "<CGAL/IO/PLY_writer.h>"
-#define CGAL_REPLACEMENT_HEADER "<CGAL/IO/PLY.h>"
-#include <CGAL/internal/deprecation_warning.h>
-
-#include <CGAL/IO/PLY/PLY_writer.h>
-
-#endif // CGAL_IO_PLY_WRITER_H
diff --git a/Polyhedron_IO/include/CGAL/IO/STL_reader.h b/Polyhedron_IO/include/CGAL/IO/STL_reader.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 7aec56e9c40..00000000000
--- a/Polyhedron_IO/include/CGAL/IO/STL_reader.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2015 GeometryFactory
-//
-// This file is part of CGAL (www.cgal.org)
-//
-// $URL$
-// $Id$
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later OR LicenseRef-Commercial
-//
-// Author(s)     : Andreas Fabri,
-//                 Mael Rouxel-Labbé
-
-#ifndef CGAL_IO_STL_READER_H
-#define CGAL_IO_STL_READER_H
-
-#define CGAL_DEPRECATED_HEADER "<CGAL/IO/STL_reader.h>"
-#define CGAL_REPLACEMENT_HEADER "<CGAL/IO/STL.h>"
-#include <CGAL/internal/deprecation_warning.h>
-
-#include <CGAL/IO/STL/STL_reader.h>
-
-#endif // CGAL_IO_STL_READER_H
diff --git a/Polyhedron_IO/include/CGAL/IO/STL_writer.h b/Polyhedron_IO/include/CGAL/IO/STL_writer.h
deleted file mode 100644
index b4a0578b967..00000000000
--- a/Polyhedron_IO/include/CGAL/IO/STL_writer.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2017 GeometryFactory
-//
-// This file is part of CGAL (www.cgal.org)
-//
-// $URL$
-// $Id$
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later OR LicenseRef-Commercial
-//
-// Author(s)     : Sebastien Loriot
-
-#ifndef CGAL_IO_STL_WRITER_H
-#define CGAL_IO_STL_WRITER_H
-
-#define CGAL_DEPRECATED_HEADER "<CGAL/IO/STL_writer.h>"
-#define CGAL_REPLACEMENT_HEADER "<CGAL/IO/STL.h>"
-#include <CGAL/internal/deprecation_warning.h>
-
-#include <CGAL/IO/STL/STL_writer.h>
-
-#endif // CGAL_IO_STL_WRITER_H
diff --git a/Polyhedron_IO/package_info/Polyhedron_IO/dependencies b/Polyhedron_IO/package_info/Polyhedron_IO/dependencies
deleted file mode 100644
index b8678f37e1c..00000000000
--- a/Polyhedron_IO/package_info/Polyhedron_IO/dependencies
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-Algebraic_foundations
-BGL
-Circulator
-Distance_2
-Geomview
-HalfedgeDS
-Hash_map
-Installation
-Interval_support
-Inventor
-Kernel_23
-Modifier
-Modular_arithmetic
-Number_types
-Polyhedron
-Polyhedron_IO
-Profiling_tools
-Property_map
-STL_Extension
-Stream_support
diff --git a/Polyhedron_IO/package_info/Polyhedron_IO/description.txt b/Polyhedron_IO/package_info/Polyhedron_IO/description.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 81ca5a01601..00000000000
--- a/Polyhedron_IO/package_info/Polyhedron_IO/description.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-File IO for CGAL::Polyhedron_3.
-
-This package is fully deprecated in favor of I/O functions in the packages BGL, Polyhedron, and Stream_support.
diff --git a/Polyhedron_IO/package_info/Polyhedron_IO/license.txt b/Polyhedron_IO/package_info/Polyhedron_IO/license.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 8bb8efcb72b..00000000000
--- a/Polyhedron_IO/package_info/Polyhedron_IO/license.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-GPL (v3 or later)
diff --git a/Polyhedron_IO/package_info/Polyhedron_IO/maintainer b/Polyhedron_IO/package_info/Polyhedron_IO/maintainer
deleted file mode 100644
index 7e028c78627..00000000000
--- a/Polyhedron_IO/package_info/Polyhedron_IO/maintainer
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-cgal-develop
diff --git a/Scripts/developer_scripts/add_license_in_pkg_header.py b/Scripts/developer_scripts/add_license_in_pkg_header.py
index a093373654a..b5bb60ea2a8 100644
--- a/Scripts/developer_scripts/add_license_in_pkg_header.py
+++ b/Scripts/developer_scripts/add_license_in_pkg_header.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Insert in all the header file of a package the include directive
 # "#include <CGAL/license/${package_name}.h" if it is not already there
 # There are two arguments to the script as some packages are split into
-# subdirectories (Polyhedron_IO, Algebraic_kernel_for_circles, ...)
+# subdirectories (Algebraic_kernel_for_circles, ...)
 
 from sys import argv
 import os