One of its directors, Professor Bob Stone, said the idea was the program would be used by groups of eight children at a time, with two taking the controls and the others making notes and discussing what to do.

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"You've got to be more flexible, and you can certainly not have your itinerary in stone, " says Bob Jones, a columnist for 1travel.com.

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