LeisureDistrict.net, the leading global online community, is enhancing its
already content-rich 'community' offering by creating a virtual airport on
the site.

ExpediaTM, the comprehensive online travel site operated by Expedia Inc, has
been signed up to be the major content provider for the airport, which is
set to go live in early February 2000.

LeisureDistrict.net members will be able to research and book their travel
and holiday requirements direct from the site. LeisureDistrict.net is
currently exploring opportunities for further strategic partnerships to
build on this exciting development.

Steve Laitman, Chief Executive of LeisureDistrict.net, said: "Travel plays a
big part in everyone's lives, so it naturally followed for LeisureDistrict
members to be offered the chance to organise their travel requirements
direct from within their community. Expedia offered us the perfect
solution."

Commenting on the deal, James Vaile, Managing Director of Expedia.co.uk,
said: "Expedia has a proven track record and continues to lead the online
travel sector. This partnership means the community will now have the
benefit of Expedia's hands on travel planning and booking services."

The virtual airport initiative coincides with an announcement from
e-district.net plc (formerly Synet Communications), LeisureDistrict.net's
operators, of its intention to seek a quotation for its shares on the
Alternative Investment Market (AIM).

e-district.net plans to raise £[15]m to fund development of the business.
Market capitalisation at the issue price is expected to be over £[100]m.

LeisureDistrict.net is a fully-fledged virtual community generating 100
million page views per month and with over 1.6 million members registered
worldwide (January 2000).

Divided into a number of 'Activity Centres', the site offers community
driven participation in virtual version of a real district. Activities
include:

- Community Centre

- Games Arcade

- Library

- Greetings Card Hall

- Sports Centre

- Shopping Mall (including department store - The NetStore)

- Pet Zone

- News Stand

LeisureDistrict has been designed specifically to simultaneously embrace PCs
and interactive TV, overcoming significant design and technological issues,
to capitalise on the growth of both mass media. The site recently
announced an agreement with WorldGate Communications Inc, a leading
interactive television provider based in the US. WorldGate's Internet on
EVERY TVsm Service offers cable subscribers high performance, low cost
internet and email access without the need of a personal computer via
existing cable TV infrastructure and wireless keyboards.

WorldGate has acquired four of LeisureDistrict's activity centres in a bid
to enhance its web TV content offering. These activities - chat, private
messaging, NetPets and games - will soon be fully accessible through
WorldGate-affiliated cable TV Service.

For further information, visuals or interviews with Steve Laitman, founder
of LeisureDistrict.net, please contact Kristen Lazur or Fran Grice @ Eulogy!
Tel: 0171 927 9999 or email >

For further information on Expedia please contact Jon Cunningham
Tel: 0171 465 7700 or email
>

Notes for Editors:

ABOUT E-DISTRICT.NET plc

e-district.net plc runs a truly global interactive family entertainment
channel which provides a fun environment for over 1.6 million users
worldwide. As of January 2000, the site generates 100 million page views
per month. LeisureDistrict.net offers a host of features including online
games, discussions groups, chat rooms, home pages, virtual pets, e-mail,
greeting cards, news and a virtual shopping mall. The web site has been
developed to be compliant with forthcoming cable Digital TV set top boxes
and other web via the TV devices.

ABOUT EXPEDIA.CO.UK

Expedia.co.uk is the best way to plan and book your travel online, giving
you the choice and control to easily plan travel, buy air tickets, make
hotel and car reservations and book late availability package deals by
giving you access to exactly the same information as a High Street travel
agent.

Expedia.co.uk offers millions of published and discounted fares on over 450
airlines, a directory of 40,000 hotels worldwide, car hire from more than 40
rental companies and a choice of 75,000 package holidays updated every 30
minutes. The site also includes in depth destination guides and maps, a
comprehensive travel information service with an online magazine, and
thousands of useful links to relevant Web sites.

Expedia.co.uk is entirely free to anyone on the Internet and you don't have
to register until you purchase. It was voted Europe's number one travel
site by Forrester Research in August 1999.

Expedia.co.uk is the localised UK web site of Expedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPE).
Expedia, Inc. was floated on the Nasdaq National Exchange in the US in
November 1999 and remains majority-owned by Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT).

ABOUT WORLDGATE

Headquartered near Philadelphia, WorldGate, a leader in the development of
interactive television, was the first to commercially deploy a service that
enabled cable subscribers to access a full array of high-performance,
low-cost Internet services and e-mail through their television sets and the
cable television infrastructure rather than a personal computer and
telephone line. WorldGate is currently deployed in cable systems owned by
Bresnan Communications, BuckeyeCableSystem, Charter Communications, Prestige
Cable, Click!Network, Massillon Cable, and Comcast Cable Communications. In
addition, WorldGate has international deployment and trial agreements with
19 MSOs in 13 countries worldwide. The WorldGate Service marries WorldGate's
proprietary technology with the television set platform to use either the
existing advanced analog or digital cable converter along with a remote
control or wireless keyboard to bring the Internet to cable subscribers.
Using advanced analog converters, the Service operates at more than 2 times
the speed of a standard 56 Kbps telephone modem. With digital converters,
the Service operates at speeds up to 38 Mbps, over 3.5 times faster than a
typical cable modem. In addition, WorldGate's patented Channel HyperLinking
technology allows viewers instant access from the program they are watching
to a related Web site or locally available information sources. For more
information, interested parties may go to www.wgate.com. WorldGate
Communications' stock is traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol WGAT.

WorldGate and Channel HyperLinking are service marks of WorldGate
Communications, Inc.