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Io Tours was founded in 1989 in Chania, Crete and since then it has been a general tourism agency. For so many years our company has been offering tourist services to a large number of visitors with great success.
Our office activities are varied to meet all the requirements of our partners and clients. We undertake: excursions, bus rentals, inbound and outbound tourism.
The staff of Io Tours consists of 15 office staff and 50 drivers, all of them capable and suitable to cope with the demands of tourism.
Starting from the management and the staff of our office, continuing to our drivers and ending with our guides and escorts of our excursions, we all take care one by one that your holidays in Crete will be unforgettable.
History of Ιώ
Io, in Greek mythology, daughter of Inachus (the river god of Argos) and the Oceanid Melia. Under the name of Callithyia, Io was regarded as the first priestess of Hera, the wife of Zeus.
Zeus fell in love with her and, to protect her from the wrath of Hera, changed her into a white heifer. Hera persuaded Zeus to give her the heifer and sent Argus Panoptes (“the All-Seeing”) to watch her.
Zeus thereupon sent the god Hermes, who lulled Argus to sleep and killed him. Hera then sent a gadfly to torment Io, who therefore wandered all over the earth, crossed the Ionian Sea, swam the strait that was thereafter known as the Bosporus (meaning Ox-Ford), and at last reached Egypt, where she was restored to her original form and gave birth to Epaphus.
Io was identified with the Egyptian goddess Isis, and Epaphus with Apis, the sacred bull. Epaphus was said to have been carried off by order of Hera to Byblos in Syria, where he was found again by Io.
This part of the legend connects Io with the Syrian goddess Astarte. Both the Egyptian and the Syrian parts, in fact, reflect interchange with the East and the identification of foreign with Greek gods.
Comfortable and luxurious transport
The transport sector is our main project. With 40 privately owned luxury buses, we have managed to become the main tourist transport force in the prefecture of Chania, with the ability to serve a large volume of tourists every year.All our buses provide a safe, comfortable and luxurious transport, thanks to their design and facilities.
With partners from Europe and Greece we undertake to serve inbound tourism packages. With our quality as our ally, we make sure that the visitors of Crete enjoy their holidays to the fullest.
Every year we undertake the organization of daily excursions to various interesting places of our prefecture and not only, in order for the visitor of Chania to discover and enjoy the beauties of our place in the best, safest and most comfortable way.
At the same time, our office undertakes the organization of excursions both at home and abroad with organized tours to beautiful destinations.
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