Online travel services company Priceline Group Inc (PCLN) reported a better-than-expected jump in quarterly profit as hotel bookings rose and forecast current-quarter earnings largely above estimates.Shares of the company, which operates Booking.com, Priceline.com and Kayak.com, rose 6.09% in extended trading on Thursday.Priceline said it expected an adjusted profit of $28.30 to $29.80 per share for the third quarter ending Sept. 30. Analysts on average were expecting $28.99 per share, according to Thomson Reuters.The company expects revenue to rise between 12% and 17%. The Norwalk, Connecticut-based company said hotel bookings rose 24.4% in the second quarter, while car rental bookings rose 7.6 percent. Total gross bookings increased 19.4% in the quarter.The company's net income rose to $580.64 million, or $11.60 per share, in the second quarter ended June 30, from $517.0 million, or $9.94 per share, a year earlier. Excluding items, Priceline earned $13.93 per share.Revenue rose 12.1% to $2.56 billion.Analysts on average had expected earnings of $12.69 per share and revenue $2.58 billion. Figures are good, I will keep the stock in my portfolio. $BKNG, Booking Holdings Inc. Common Stock / 1440