According the documentation is is possible to turn off the functionality just doing $(\'body\').off(\'.alert.data-api\').
In the case of tooltip I tried the
You can't disable tooltips that way because it has no event listener on the body. Instead, you can disable the tooltips themselves using the code below.
$('[rel=tooltip]').tooltip() // Init tooltips
$('[rel=tooltip]').tooltip('disable') // Disable tooltips
$('[rel=tooltip]').tooltip('enable') // (Re-)enable tooltips
$('[rel=tooltip]').tooltip('destroy') // Hide and destroy tooltips
Edit: For Bootstrap 4, the 'destroy' command has been replaced by the 'dispose' command, so:
$('[rel=tooltip]').tooltip('dispose') // Hide and destroy tooltips in Bootstrap 4